Blog: Not a game’
In his opening remarks at Wednesday’s press conference, the president said Americans were looking to Congress for leadership.
“This debate is not a game,” he said. “This isn’t about me – I have great health insurance and so does every member of Congress.”
Rather, he said, it was about ordinary Americans who had been forced to “shoulder the burden of a problem that Washington has failed to solve for decades.”
“We will pass reform that lowers cost, promotes choice and provides coverage that every American can count on,” he said.
“And we will do it this year.”
“I’m rushed because I get letters every day from families that are being clobbered by health care costs, and they ask me can you help,” Mr Obama said.
The president said he would not rule out any ideas proposed in Congress, except any proposal that was “primarily funded through taxing middle class families”.
He also said reshaping America’s health care system was crucial to helping the broader economy, and that any reform would reduce rather than add to the US deficit.
Talking about the general economy, Mr Obama said the US had been “on the verge of a complete financial meltdown”, but there was now “stabilisation”.
“We’ve stepped away from the brink,” he said, adding that “things would be even worse” without the government’s financial bailout package.
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