In the aftermath of the Democratic loss in the Massachusetts Senate race, President Obama, in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC World News appeared to signal a new approach to his healthcare reform agenda.
Rather than trying to push through either the Senate or House bills, Obama said, "I would advise we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package people agree on."
Stephanopoulos later commented, "Even though he wouldn't say so, what he was really signaling" was "recognizing reality: that the two big bills, the nearly trillion dollar bills, that passed the House and the Senate...are not going to pass this year." But Obama "wants something that everybody can agree on, that's going to be difficult to get."
The AP reports, "No decisions have been made, lawmakers said, but they laid out a new approach that could still include these provisions: limiting the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage to people with medical problems, allowing young adults to stay on their parents' policies, helping small businesses and low-income people pay premiums and changing Medicare to encourage payment for quality care instead of sheer volume of services."
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