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  GOP and Democrats Agree Health Overhaul Not Dead
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Last EditedMonsieur  Jan 31, 2010 08:14pm
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AuthorNaftali Bendavid and Corey Boles
News DateMonday, February 1, 2010 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionWASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans agreed on Sunday that President Barack Obama’s health overhaul wasn’t dead. They disagreed over whether that was a good thing.

Democrats portrayed the health-care effort as a valiant crusade that had suffered a setback but could return to life. “We’re still inside the five-yard line,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We’re one vote away in the House of Representatives from making health-care reform a reality.”

He added, “The president is ready, willing and able to sit down and listen to Republican ideas for how we improve the health-care bill.”

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) made the overhaul sound more like a corpse that refused to die.

“We’ve seen all week Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi, Majority Leader [Harry] Reid continuing to scheme and plot, trying to find some way to get their big-government takeover of health care enacted,” Boehner said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I do think they are having problems, but I think Republicans are going to continue to be vigilant.”
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