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President, GOP Meet Tomorrow, But Obama Proposal No Bipartisan Compromise
February 24, 2010Although Republicans will meet with President Obama tomorrow for a health care summit, supposedly to negotiate a bipartisan agreement for health care reform, Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) health care expert Dr. Merrill Matthews says the president's plan does nothing to appease the other side of the aisle. "Republicans had three fundamental objections to the House and Senate health care reform bills," said Matthews. "Last year's bills cost a trillion dollars or more, cut Medicare by $450 billion to $500 billion and created numerous new taxes and bureaucracies." Full release.