House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer issued a statement today regarding Thursday’s bipartisan health care summit. Here’s the full text:
“Over the course of the last year, the House and Senate thoroughly and publicly debated how best to make health care more affordable and accessible. The resulting bills are comprehensive solutions that would provide greater security in cost, access and quality to all Americans.
“Now is the time to move forward, and that is why the President has convened an open, bipartisan meeting and laid out an Administration proposal that will serve as a framework for that discussion. In combining elements of the House and Senate-passed bills, the President has drawn a blueprint of ideas that have been thoroughly debated and publicly examined.
“Thursday’s meeting will provide the opportunity for Democrats and Republicans to continue an open and transparent discussion of health care reform and hopefully find areas of agreement that will strengthen the final product and help move the process forward. That is what the American people have asked of us – to work together to find compromise and solve the common problems we face.”
