"Major US health reform is dead for now". Discuss.
SPOTLIGHT: PREPARING FOR TV
President Obama yesterday met with Democratic and Republican leaders at
the White House to discuss health care reform, job creation and other
legislative priorities. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.),
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) were
among those attending the meeting. The two-hour meeting was the start of
fresh efforts by Obama to draw greater input from Republicans. The
meeting is ahead of a Feb. 25 televised summit, during which Obama plans
to lead a bipartisan effort to move reform legislation forward.
McConnell repeated an earlier call to begin negotiations on a consensus
reform bill by scrapping the House and Senate bills (HR 3962, HR 3590)
passed last year. However, Obama noted that the bills already include
many of the ideas that Republicans favor, and rejected the request.
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