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And I want to be very specific. 'How do you guys want to lower costs? How do you guys intend to reform the insurance markets so people with preexisting conditions, for example, can get health care? How do you want to make sure that the 30 million people who don't have health insurance can get it?
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What I want to do is to look at the Republican ideas that are out there
- Canoe
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If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate
- Canoe
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Rhetoric threatens Obama's health care offer to GOP
...Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Hoyer, to discuss the 2010 legislative agenda. Republicans say they were notified by the White House on Sunday, a couple of hours before a CBS News interview in which Obama floated the... |more
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Obama meets with GOP, says can spur job growth
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GOP wary of pitfalls in Obama's health care summit
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