Rounds holds out hope for bipartisan health care reform
As
"I'm just very, very excited about the interest that our conference has put together on this, recognizing that once we get this point done and do the hard lift on this, I really think we're going to get some bipartisan support to tweak it, to make things better and to continue with additional good moves with regard to health care," Rounds said in a call with reporters Thursday. "... We've just got to have 50 votes to do it, that's the question."
Rounds' comments followed the release of a
His regular call with reporters on Thursday also followed the release of an updated
The CBO report came one day after a separate report showed merely repealing Obamacare without replacing it would leave 32 million more Americans uninsured in 2026.
With the state of health care reform ever in flux, Rounds sees the upcoming week as a critical point to make progress.
"In the next week I think everything comes to a head," Rounds said.
He also spoke of a tele-town hall meeting he held Monday with the people of
And after meeting with President
"During that meeting, we came to a broad agreement that we really do have to act and to repeal and replace Obamacare," Rounds said.
While Rounds works toward health care reform in
"It's astonishing that, as signaled by the
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