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I WILL GIVE THEM
CREDIT FOR BREAKING
OUT
HEALTHCARE SYSTEM!!
HOWS THAT?
Democratic senators are unhappy the White House didn’t give them any credit for key fixes to ObamaCare.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) recently reproached President Obama in private on the issue, arguing Obama should have given his colleagues more praise.
“I did communicate to him that there have been things done by the White House that improved the healthcare bill and those fixes were suggested originally by my senators and they got no credit for it. I thought that was improper,” Reid said in an interview Wednesday with The Hill.
Reid didn’t specify what ideas Senate Democrats had offered to the White House.
Obama suggested in public remarks on Oct. 30 that his administration had received little constructive feedback from critics.
“If folks had actually good ideas, better ideas than what’s happening in Massachusetts or what we’ve proposed for providing people with health insurance, I’d be happy to listen. But that’s not what’s happening,” he said.
Democratic senators had several meetings with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior administration officials to put together a rescue plan for ObamaCare.
The law’s ailing website and other problems set off a near-panic in November among Democrats who remain worried that the law could cost them the Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections.
Reid said the coordination between the White House and Senate Democratic caucus had been inadequate during the height of HealthCare.gov’s problems.
“There was a period of time there where there were no questions that were answered because they were so overwhelmed with trying to get that program fixed,” he said.
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