Obama Maintains Health Care Will Be Budget Neutral

Courtesy Donklephant  Sat, 07/11/2009 - 12:42pm

We all know that universal health care has been incredibly hard to achieve, but budget neutral universal health care?

Well, that seems nearly impossible. Well, nearly impossibly politically. So if Obama can pull it off it’ll be a feat indeed.

Here’s what he said recently at the G8 Summit, from CQ Politics :

Obama indicated he would continue to put cost on an equal footing with expanded coverage, by emphasizing that any health plan...


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