Highlights: President Obama’s Opening Statement at the Bipartisan Health Reform Meeting
If you missed yesterday's bipartisan health reform meeting, or want to watch video highlights, we'll be posting a few throughout the day. Here's President Obama's opening statement:
To kick off the bipartisan health reform meeting, President Obama lays out the plan for the day and his hopes Buy Accutane for what can be accomplished. He talks about where we're at now and why this meeting is so necessary: President Obama explains:
"Politics, I think, ended up trumping practical common sense. I said at the State of the Union, and I'll repeat -- I didn't take this on because I thought it was good politics. This is such a complicated issue that it's inevitably going to be contentious. But what I'm hoping to accomplish today is for everybody to focus not just on where we differ, but focus on where we agree."
You can watch more highlights here.