'Distortions' dominate health-care debate, Obama says
Posted: August 23, 2009 at 4:51 a.m.
President Barack Obama said debate over revamping the U.S. health-care system is being dominated by "willful misrepresentations and outright distortions." Obama, after leaving Washington to start a week-long vacation, used his weekly address on the radio and Internet to urge Americans to "rise above our differences" to fix a costly and ineffective health-insurance system.
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