Obama: No painless health-care cure
He urges Americans to have realistic expectations, honest debate
Posted: August 16, 2009 at 4:55 a.m.
President Barack Obama held his third and final health-care townhall gathering Saturday, telling a friendly crowd that change will require insurance companies to abide by caps on out-of-pocket expenses and accusing some of the effort's detractors of being "simply dishonest." About halfway through the questioning, Obama encouraged people to have realistic expectations about what could come of health-care changes, his largest domestic initiative.
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