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...that's going to include things like preventing insurers from dropping people because of pre-existing conditions. We said that we are going to need to expand coverage; that an insurance exchange that would provide people a menu of options was an important mechanism to expand choice and help to deliver help to people who didn't have health insurance or were underinsured. We talked about the need for a public option as part of that health-care exchange. (Read "The State of Play for Health-Care Reform...
Having said that, I think in both circumstances, as President, you have to help make - help to make the case publicly, but then you also have to work through a wide range of divergent interests - geographical, ideological - and that involves combining firmness of purpose with some flexibility to get the job done. Whether we've struck that right balance we'll find out in the next couple of months...
...reform, and that's going to include things like preventing insurers from dropping people because of preexisting conditions. We said that we are going to need to expand coverage; that an insurance exchange that would provide people a menu of options was an important mechanism to expand choice and help to deliver help to people who didn't have health insurance or were underinsured. We talked about the need for a public option as part of that health care exchange...
...bills that are out there that people have agreed to, reflect our - most of our ideas from the start of this process. So we haven't had trouble in moving the process to most of the things that we want to see in health care, which we think will help the American people have quality, affordable health care...
...just take one example, and that is how do you pay for the uninsured who would be receiving some help, some subsidies, through this plan? Very early we identified over $500 billion from Medicare and Medicaid savings, such as the elimination of all the subsidies for Medicare Advantage, that would cover up to two-thirds of the cost of covering the uninsured...