Earlier today, President Obama published a letter to the congressional leaders in which he described ways that the Health Care bill picked up a few Republican ideas: undercover health care "police men", increasing the use of health savings, increasing payments to the Medicaid program providers, and giving states power to solve malpractice in the medical field.
While I feel that these are all good ideas, I can't help but think that Obama added these mainly to appease the Republicans, which is something he needed to do. Even if he were to take the bill to reconciliation, it would not be "right" (in my own view) to pass it into law if so many people were anti-reform. Obama has shown through his persistence on health care that he will not let this issue take the back burner, which I think is something that needed to be done.
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