Vice President Biden: "We're Going To Get Something Substantial"

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Biden: Obama health plan to be bold, contentious

Source: AP

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday the Obama administration is fiercely determined to get a health care overhaul, although he conceded it likely won't happen without "an awful lot of screaming and hollering."

Appearing at a Brookings Institution gathering to talk up the employment dividends of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan, Biden said it will be difficult to find a consensus on remaking the system. But he also predicted that "we're going to get something substantial" and said he believes "we're going to get there."

Biden spoke as President Barack Obama continued a pre-Labor Day rest at Camp David. Obama is shifting his push for health care changes into high gear next week with a State of the Union-style address to a joint meeting of Congress. The vice president suggested Obama will tell Congress and the American people precisely what he thinks must be included in the package that the White House is pressing lawmakers to approve this fall.

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Biden did not say whether the screaming would come from liberals who feel Obama is accepting too many compromises, or from conservatives and moderates who feel his plan costs too much and threatens the health of private insurance companies.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_health_care_overhaul

they were elected in an electoral landslide, Democrats won nearly a 60 vote Senate block, and a heavily slanted amount of votes in the House!

We wanted this! Either universal govt run health care, or if we had to have it - a public option - anything less, along with several other things that haven't occurred yet, are going to make millions of us nonchalant about believing politicians.

An entire generation will be completely disillutioned with politics. :shrug: