Obama’s call for a health ‘summit’ with the GOP

President Obama threw down a challenge to Republican congressional leaders on health-care policy, proposing a Feb. 25 bipartisan health-care summit at which Republicans and Democrats would share ideas for reform.

What happened

President Obama threw down a challenge last week to Republican congressional leaders on health-care policy, proposing a Feb. 25 bipartisan health-care summit at which Republicans and Democrats would share ideas for reform. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor derided the summit as “a dog and pony show,” and Republican leaders indicated they might not attend unless Democrats scrap the bills passed by the Senate and House and “start over.” Obama, however, insisted that the bills serve as the basis for discussions at the half-day summit. The White House says it is “open to Republican ideas,” said Michael Cannon, a policy expert at the libertarian Cato Institute, “but the Republicans’ one idea is to kill the bill.”

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