This is great news, if true. It also gives us, for the first time, a specific promise as to what our premiums will be like in the future. (And also something to hold him specifically accountable for).
In an excerpt released by "60 Minutes," Obama said: “I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails. That doesn't work. You know, I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it. And if people look and say, ‘You know what? This hasn't reduced my costs. My premiums are still going up 25 percent, insurance companies are still jerking me around.’ I'm the one who's going to be held responsible. So I have every incentive to get this right.”
