Health-Care bill

        President Obama wrote congressional leaders, that he plan to incorporate four new Republican ideas and strip out legislative dealmaking from his health care proposal in an effort to win over some Republican votes, needed for passing a slimmed down health care bill.

        The proposals will not win over liberal Democrats that want the president to expand his plan to include a public option. The Republican proposals Obama has embraced reform the way states handle medical malpractice suits, reduce waste and abuse in the health care system, increase Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and expands health savings accounts.

       Admittedly, there are areas on which Republicans and Democrats don't agree. While we all believe that reform must be built around our existing private health insurance system, I believe that we must hold the insurance industry to clear rules, so they can't arbitrarily raise rates or reduce or eliminate coverage.

       Mitch McConnell said,I know you've all heard this before but what we need to do is put the 2,700-page bill on the shelf, start over with a blank piece of paper and go step-by-step to fix the cost problem and this would not do that,Tinkering around the edges with some of these Republican ideas "may be a good thing in that respect but it doesn't take away from the fact you've got a God awful bill here,

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