Obama Faces Arduous Health Care Battle
Originally posted on CNN.com
The struggle to overhaul health care is expected to reach a fever pitch Wednesday.
President Obama, putting a chunk of his political capital on the line, will take his case for change to the airwaves while congressional negotiators tackle politically explosive proposals relating to coverage and cost control.
Overhauling the health care system is Obama’s top domestic priority, but initial proposals to reach Congress last week received a rocky reception. House and Senate Democrats are responding by intensifying their efforts.
They are holding four separate hearings Wednesday focusing, among other things, on the question of how to pay a price tag that may exceed $1 trillion.
Obama will spend the afternoon pushing the case for reform with a bipartisan group of governors before holding a nationally televised, White House town hall-style meeting on the issue Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are jumping into the fight, unveiling an alternative proposal that pointedly prevents any government-funded public option from competing with private insurers. The GOP is adamant that such a step, which Democrats largely favor, will destroy the private insurance industry and lead to a government takeover of health care, which they oppose.
Obama argued Tuesday that having a public health insurance alternative is “an important tool to discipline insurance companies” and will help control spiraling health care costs.
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