Thursday, February 25, 2010

LIve Blogging the Health Care Summit 2

Outlining the problem: families suffering, drain on economy, things are getting worse, hurting businesses, effect on the federal budget (bad), exploding cost of medicare and medicaid...

Personal stories--his kids going to the hospital when they were young, what would've happened if he didn't have reliable health care, his mom's cancer. I think this personal, low key approach is good for setting the tone as not intimidating or confrontational. I guess since his real audience is the country it also is a way to connect with normal folks.

"This became a very partisan battle" um hmmm.

That plant by his head is distracting

Overlap of ideas, areas of agreement

9:20

Hope as we discuss each section today, hope to bridge some gaps, don't know if we *can* bridge gaps, but I'd like to make sure this discussion is actually a discussion and not just us trading talking points.

Well, good luck with that

...(it could happen)...

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