Obama: Email sent out about Healthcare Summit

Here's how President Obama's permanent campaign organization, Organizing for America, summed up the results of the Healthcare Summit (in an email sent out yesterday:

It was a conversation focused on substance, not process, and it showed. Both sides found areas of agreement.

But there was a fundamental divide on establishing common sense rules to protect families from the worst insurance company practices (COMMENT: in other words, the Democrats want price fixing), and making sure that every American -- rich or poor, old or young -- has access to care (COMMENT: Don't we already have a tax-funded safety net?). 

The President does not believe we can address a problem this big incrementally -- or after another year of rising costs and loss of coverage. (COMMENT: He views the "problem" as so important that we must do everything at once, or, what, do nothing? Strange.)

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