President's update on healthcare bill...

Hey, wasn't everyone saying that congress couldn't come to an agreement? And that no one wanted this bill?
Who to believe...

Over the last several weeks, we have forged a level of consensus around health insurance reform that we've never seen before in this country. In May, we were able to bring together health care providers around an agreement to do their part to decrease the annual rate of health care growth by 1.5 percentage points annually, which will save us $2 trillion or more over the next decade in lower costs for all of us.

A few weeks later, we got the pharmaceutical industry to agree to $80 billion in spending reductions over the next decade, reductions that will make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors. And that's partly why the AARP has endorsed our efforts.

Last week, we reached an agreement with hospitals to bring down costs by another $155 billion. And just this past week, both the American Nurses Association and the American Medical Association, representing millions of nurses and doctors across the nation who know our health care system best, announced their support for what we're trying to do.

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