Marco Rubio - U.S. Senate - 2010

Miami, FL – U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio issued the following statement regarding today’s White House Health Care Summit:

“It’s clear from today’s Health Care Summit that President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have no intention of seeking a commonsense compromise on a health care reform bill. Instead of scrapping this job-killing government takeover plan, Washington Democrats remain intent on ramming through legislation that will fundamentally change our health care system while inflicting additional damage on a significant segment of our economy.

“Unfortunately, they fail to recognize the American people’s overwhelming pushback on this health care bill and continue harboring plans to use the reconciliation maneuver to ram it through. This is the wrong approach on both policy and procedural grounds. Today’s summit reinforces my belief that we need leaders in the U.S. Senate who will stand up to this agenda and offer a clear alternative, not people who will indulge these P.R. opportunities and work to advance policies that would be detrimental to Florida and our nation.

“The American people deserve better than this health care bill. This is a fundamentally flawed bill that is an impediment to job creation and helping the American people attain more affordable, higher quality health care.”