Obama's Health Care Pledge: Getting a Deal Trumps Making the Process Transparent >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/ 3 years ago
When candidate Barack Obama was criss-crossing the country in his
two-year presidential campaign, a standard part of his stump speech --
lines that always won him applause -- had to do with his promise to
negotiate health care reform in public, on C-SPAN, for all to see. As
the wrangling over health overhaul legislation heads into its final
stretch, it's clear that was a promise President Obama did not keep. The
dealmaking remained behind closed doors.
Here's what Obama said in August 2008, at a town-hall meeting: "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."
Troubles With Health Site Could Serve as Test for Obama
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Flaws in the rollout of the online federal exchange could have serious
implications for President Obama’s promise of a more efficient
government.
- Promised Fix for Health Site Could Squeeze Some Users
- Problems That Have Crippled HealthCare.gov
- http://www.nytimes.com/
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