Well, that worked out well again. "Coburn SPURNS health care compromise"

[Bluebear]

And to think, it was only yesterday that President Obama encouraged Congress to incorporate his BFF Coburn's idea about hiring Medicare "spies" to roam the land to stop health care 'waste and corruption'.

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While President Barack Obama plans to include Republican ideas into a comprehensive health care reform plan he wants approved by Congress, not everyone is ready to jump on board.

On March 2, President Obama sent a letter to congressional leaders, praising last week’s White House health summit and finding areas of both common ground and lingering disagreement between Republicans and Democrats. Obama said he left the seven-hour meeting, “convinced that the Republican and Democratic approaches to health care have more in common than most people think.”...

While praising the president’s overature, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said real reform cannot be achieved by “merely incorporating these ideas into the deeply flawed House and Senate bills.

“I hope the White House and congressional leaders build on the progress we have made and not undermine it with a divisive bill and strategy the American people have already rejected,” Coburn said in a statement.

Coburn, a physician, added that the congressional leadership can now continue to work with Republicans on areas of agreement or attempt an “all-or-nothing” reconciliation strategy “and most likely accomplish nothing.

“Although the president said at the summit that future elections may decide the direction of health care reform, it is important for the majority to acknowledge the reality that the public has already rendered its judgment in polls, elections and town hall meetings,” he said. “By an overwhelming margin, the American people want Congress to abandon the Senate and House bills that will bankrupt our country, fund abortion and ration care and instead start over.”

http://ifawebnews.com/2010/03/03/coburn-spurns-obamas-compromise-on-deeply-flawed-health-reform-bills/