After weeks of fighting on President Obama proposed health care reforms, the discussion on Monday focused on whether the U.S. government has offered a public insurance option.
Obama says the president of a public insurance option, "is not a full reform of the health system."
The administration strengthened by its insistence on such a solution within a week, while Obama said: "I do not completely reform the health system."
His spokesman Robert Gibbs, said that the President may be satisfied "with her. The Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius CNN, said that" State of the Union "that the public insurance plan" is not an essential element " .
Move the concessions to the critics, mainly Republican lawmakers, who have attacked the idea of government to play this role. But it is also the frustration of those left, I believe that such an option is critical.
The former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean, a physician and once a presidential candidate, told NBC's "Today Show" Monday, claiming that the public has the option of completing the reform of the health system is not fully in the reform of enterprises insurance ".
The petition on its website StandWithDrDean.com read: "Public is the only way to guarantee healthcare for all Americans, and its inclusion is not negotiable."
Making the problem by means of an agreement may be necessary for legislation by the Senate. Democratic Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, one of six members of the Senate Finance Committee, who are trying to hammer bipartisan compromise legislation, said Sunday the public simply does not do so by Congress.
"The fact is that there are votes in the Senate, the U.S. public choice. There's never," said Conrad, "Fox News Sunday."
Instead, negotiators are considering a public plan option proposed by Conrad in creating a non-profit health insurance cooperatives that could negotiate a collective insurance for their members.
But the law leaves the public insurance option may encounter difficulties at home among the Democrats.
"It would be very difficult," Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson Texas told CNN's "State of the Union, because without the possibility of the public will have the same number of people without insurance. If you want to ensure the safety of these people will be ensured.
He added that "the option that gives private insurance companies a little 'competition' is the 'only way to ensure that the insurance available to people with low incomes and people without work, provided that the cover.
Critics suggest that if the government raises the possibility of insurance incurred by the taxpayer funding, it would not be unfair competition in the sector. Private insurers would not be able to compete with the government, but soon the government to control the number of health care in America, say the critics.
"We have the best health system in the world," Republican Senator. Richard Shelby of Alabama said, "Fox News Sunday." "We need to expand its activities. There is no need to destroy."
Supporters of the public says that it is very necessary level of competition, ultimately, to the benefit of society. In place of the hall on Saturday, Grand Junction, Colorado, Obama said: "I think we can create a system where you have an audience that is able to work independently, and not subsidized by taxpayers - would be a non-profit. .. They should go the market and get the money on capital markets. "
He added: "I think there are ways that can meet the competition of these problems."
Although Congress in recess, the debate has moved on public and private ways. Ratusz wydarzenia, prawodawców przedstawiły swoje stanowiska jasne, a często są przez podważane członków tłumu. And the White House, said Obama spokesman Gibbs urges legislators to continue, even if the holiday with his family.
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