Yesterday President Obama gave a unique interview with Fox News correspondent Bret Baier, in an attempt to gain more support for the health care bill that will likely be voted on this Sunday. According to The Huffington Post, the Congressional Budget Office says the bill is less expensive that originally anticipated, and will reduce the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years while expanding coverage to 32 million people. But while many Americans support individual aspects of the bill, there is still some opposition to its general existence and the governmental process needed to pass it.
According to Time magazine, Bret Baier spent about 80% of the health care section of the Obama interview talking about that process. Baier said Fox News viewers e-mailed in 18,000 questions for the President, then implied that most of them were about the special deals for certain states contained in the Senate bill and about the “self-executing rule” House Democrats may use to get the bill passed. Baier asked if Obama supports the procedural tactics House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering? Obama implicitly answered yes, saying he doesn’t get hung up on procedure.
Which sweetheart deals that are in the original Senate bill will be stripped out by the House package of “fixes”? Obama started to answer, but Baier – later saying he was trying to “get the most for our buck here” – wouldn’t stop interrupting the President. Check it out:
