Oct 29, 2009 12:58pm
Today’s Q’s for O’s WH – 10/29/2009
EmailTAPPER: Robert, is it the opinion of this White House — has it been conveyed by this White House to Senate Democrats that the trigger mechanism for the public option would be a better way to get to 60 votes than the opt-in provision?
GIBBS: The President, when Senate Democrats were here last week, the President listened to what their strategy was for moving health care forward.
TAPPER: Robert, did he convey to them, one way or another, what he thought would be a more likely way to get the bill passed?
GIBBS: We listened to what their thoughts were there in the Senate and wanted to hear their strategy.
TAPPER: Seriously, you're not — okay, so you listened, but the President didn't convey any –
GIBBS: Not that I'm aware of, no.
-jpt
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The President can convey anything he wants, it is not going to make any difference to what Congress does at this point. It hasn’t been pretty, but health care reform is moving along. All the arguing and debating is a good thing, no need or point for the President to try to quash it.
Posted by: jhw539 | October 29, 2009, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm
The President can convey anything he wants, it is not going to make any difference to what Congress does at this point.
Posted by: jhw539 |
Is that a bug or a feature?
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | October 29, 2009, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
Pelosi’s idea of “affordable healthcare” is 894 BILLION to cover 36 MILLION more Americans. Now, how much does that cost per individual? Government is so much more efficient and cost effective then the private sector. Gosh the government is so good at…bankrupting the nation.
Posted by: wow | October 29, 2009, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm
The president doesn’t say what he wants so he can’t be blamed for when it doesn’t work. Kinda like voting ‘present’
Posted by: Rbru59 | October 29, 2009, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
Associated Press wrote this last Sunday:
In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.”
Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That’s anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.
Profits barely exceeded 2 percent of revenues in the latest annual measure.
Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | October 29, 2009, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
Obama would sign anything as long as he gets to say he was the first president to do it.
It’s all about him and his legacy.
Posted by: luke | October 29, 2009, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
Looks like Obama isn’t too concerned what’s in the health care bill.
He’s more worried about keeping a campaign promise to his wife.
Date night in NYC.
Posted by: ollie | October 29, 2009, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
“Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two”
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Those profits don’t include the numerous multi-million dollar executive salaries, nor the multi-millions spent on lobbying politicians, self promotion, money spent on legal and bureaucratic battles trying to get around making insurance payments to help people, and so on . .. right?
Posted by: tierra | October 29, 2009, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
The healthcare bill as the Democrats wanted was going to be pushed through from the get-go. The whole scenario of “bi-partisan talks” and listening to the concerns of those both inside and outside Washington was nothing more than wool being pulled over the public’s eyes. This administration is no more bi-partisan than any before it or any that will come after it. Face it folks, it’s Obama’s world and Pelosi, Reid, Frank, et al are spinning it. Robert Gibbs is only here for the comic relief.
If you’d like to see inefficiency at work, check out the taxpayer cost PER VEHICLE in the cash for clunkers plan. If that’s any indication, this bill should be the straw that finally breaks the Eagle’s back.
Posted by: Shoe | October 29, 2009, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
“If you’d like to see inefficiency at work”
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If you’d like to see inefficiency at work, look at the $9 BILLION the Bush administration ‘lost’ in Iraq. Something to do with Halliburton . . .
Posted by: tierra | October 29, 2009, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm