The Washington Post: Obama Praises Health Industry for Pledging Savings

From The Washington Post: Volunteering to "do our part" to tackle runaway health costs, officials from leading groups in the health-care industry met today with President Obama and offered to squeeze $2 trillion in savings from projected increases over the next decade.

Obama, calling the meeting "remarkable," noted that some of the groups making the offer "were among the strongest critics of past plans for comprehensive reform." Some were involved in the "Harry and Louise" ad campaign that helped derail health care reform efforts during the Clinton administration.

What prompted the meeting, he said, "is a recognition that we can't continue down the same dangerous road we've been traveling for so many years, that costs are out of control, and that reform is not a luxury that can be postponed, but a necessity that cannot wait.

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