McCain: Obama must drop ‘public option’ if he wants agreement on health-care reform
By APSunday, August 23, 2009
McCain: Obama must drop health care public option
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama will have to drop proposals for a government-run health insurance option if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on health-care reform.
McCain says many Americans are losing confidence in Obama partly because of concerns about the so-called public option. The Arizona Republican proposed that Obama meet with members of both parties in Congress to find areas of agreement, abandon the public option, and then make clear exactly what he wants in the legislation.
McCain said that right now Obama is simply leaving it to Congress to decide the details and that isn’t enough. He maintains that Republicans are willing to sit down with the president and talk about various reforms.
McCain spoke in an interview for broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
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August 23, 2009: 5:17 pm
The only people who oppose the public option are a) idiots like Flordanbach9 above, b) John McCain and the rest of the Republican party who want to make political gain at the expense of the rest of us. c) Those who get paid handsomely to say whatever they are paid to say. d) Those who think that Fox is a news station or that Rush Limbaugh is a human being. The rest of us SUPPORT THE PUBLIC OPTION. |
John Latham