"We have made significant progress in overcoming the differences," Obama said in a joint written statement to the House Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Senate majority leader. This was a reference to significant differences in House and Senate versions of bills, legislation to extend coverage to millions of others and to control the long-term costs of health care.
Pushed Obama, a senior Democratic lawmakers immersed in negotiations with the White House in a hurry-up effort to delay an agreement. Unusually long meeting - started in the morning and still be under the sun - and Obama has emphasized the urgency felt on the application of the legislation, which has put a great deal.
The White House said the leaders had covered all aspects of the legislation, but released no details on where progress has been made, or when the laborious process ends.
"The prospects of an agreement between the Senate and the house is better than it was before 24 hours. We are getting closer," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. Said after a day of talks finally ended.
Congressional negotiators will return to the White House Thursday afternoon, at the next meeting.
House of Representatives and the Senate have approved different versions of the bill, which Obama wants to expand health insurance for millions of people who did not end the practice of insurance company, such as refusal coverage based on pre-existing conditions and low growth rate of total health expenditure.
Hoyer and others have said, the day of the hearing range widely in many areas of disagreement between the House of Representatives and the Senate. The key point is the question of Obama to tax on the insurance plans' high costs, a proposal to slow the inexorable growth of health care costs. House Democrats opposed the idea. Yes He organized the work, and some union leaders were also at the White House during the day, even if he did not know if they have met with legislators.
The personal commitment of President at the time was extraordinary.
Authorities said that he bent down and met with leaders of the Senate and House Democrats in the Cabinet Room during the day, while juggling his direction, in response to the devastating earthquake Tuesday in the United States in Haiti.
Legislators get rid of their cell phones and blackberries, a standard procedure in the hearing room in which they live.
Many aid Congress was Roosevelt Room in the corridor, called to the negotiating table to discuss their areas of expertise.
House of Representatives and Senate approved the bill with a Republican vote and government of Pakistan was not invited to the dialogue, the White House.
