Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), “ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today commented on President Obama’s announcement that he will hold an on-camera health care summit with Republican Congressional leaders later this month,” per an e-mailed press release.
Senator Gregg stated, “As I have said from the beginning of the health care debate, this issue is simply too big to be addressed properly by one political party alone. I am pleased that the President is finally willing to sit down with members of the Republican Party to discuss ways that we can work together to produce a bipartisan health care bill that will reduce health care spending, improve the quality of care and provide access to affordable health insurance for all Americans. However, I hope that these conversations are constructive and serious, not used as an arena for political theater.
“There is significant bipartisan ground from which to reset the health care debate. A good place to start would be my own plan, Coverage, Prevention and Reform (CPR) or the bipartisan Wyden-Bennett Healthy Americans Act. Both of these fiscally responsible, market-based plans would go a long way to produce the reform that the American people need. I look forward to working with the President and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get this right.”
More on Senator Gregg’s proposal here.
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