Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Lisa Brown lay out health care philosophies at Spokane conference
The Republican congresswoman appeared via teleconference at the sixth gathering of The State of Reform, a conference that has brought together local lawmakers, health insurance executives and care providers to address critical changes in the industry. Addressing the conference on camera from
"We did not present our American Health Care Act in a way that people could really understand,"
Brown slammed the
"Repeal and replace has proven to be a useful political slogan," she told the crowd. "But not good policy. It's not moved us forward."
"Maybe we need to break it up, so that it would be clearer, the different aspects of what the goals are in each area of health care reform," the congresswoman said.
Brown, who has taken aim at McMorris Rodgers for her support of the Republican health plan in advertisements supporting her candidacy for office, inched toward the type of single payer-type system several liberal lawmakers on
But in remarks after her speech, the former majority leader of the state
"We should be moving toward more universal care, more people being covered," Brown said. "I think there are ways to do that that don't disrupt people who are satisfied with their health care, or businesses who are not having major problems financing it."
Brown gave the example of allowing people beginning at age 55 to buy into Medicare, as a public option, as a step in the right direction. Such an idea was floated after the defeat of the Republican health care bill last fall but has been languishing in committee in the
Wilson asked
"I think, at times, when people are so focused on the president, on the administration, on the latest tweet, that what is actually being done between the House and the
That figure was originally reported in May by the public affairs research group Quorum.
On the big issues, however, like who will pay for America's rising health care costs, the parties seem as divided as ever.
On primary night the
Brown laughed at that figure, and Republican attempts to tie her to the investment, after her speech Thursday.
"I really don't know," she said. "I wouldn't start there. I would start with, how do we shore up Medicare?"
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