WASHINGTON — Reaction to President Barack Obama’s latest health care proposal Monday was swift and blunt from GOP leaders, who had been making the case for weeks that the president should scrap previous bills and start over. They said Obama’s latest move represented more of the same problematic policies that Democrats had been pushing for months.
“The longer Washington sticks with its failed approach to health care, the longer Americans have to wait for the real, step-by-step reforms that will actually lower costs and lead to a better system,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday.
But White House advisers said they concluded weeks ago that there was still a narrow path to victory — either by securing a modest amount of bipartisan support at a televised summit Thursday or, more likely, by using parliamentary maneuvers to pass the legislation in the Senate without needing 60 votes. The Washington Post
