Continuing a big push to get a health reform bill, President Obama met today with Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) in the Oval Office. The two senators have been described as “crucial swing votes for the health care bill.”
From the NYT:
Mr. Nelson is one of several Democrats who have expressed apprehension about the idea of a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers and he has said repeatedly that he does not know if he will support the Democratic health care legislation.
Sen. Nelson and Obama, courtesy of the White House/Pete Souza
Today was an eventful day for health care reform, with both the White House and outsiders adding to the mix: President Obama continued to give interviews on health care, the American Medical Association endorsed the House Democrats’ health care bill, and the CBO chief testified before the Senate Budget Committee today with some less-than-stellar opinions of the same bill.
Read TPM’s full health care coverage here.
