Benefits Think Overheard @: Obama acknowledges health care reform will be ‘complicated,’ but he’s ‘optimistic’

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In an impromptu appearance at today’s White House press briefing, President Obama said he knows reforming the nation’s health care system will be “complicated,” but that he’s “optimistic” about the chances for a bill succeeding.

I’m generally a “can-do” sort of person, but I definitely would feel more likely to share his optimism if the cost projections — all of which are $1 trillion and upward — weren’t so prominent and payment proposals weren’t so blatantly absent.


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