From The Tulsa World:

Direct involvement by President Barack Obama is the only way to forge a bipartisan health-care bill, U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn said Thursday.

“What needs to happen is for the president to sit down with some of us and say ‘I’m going to write a bill and send it to Congress,’ ” Coburn said during a town hall meeting at Bristow. “That’s what has to happen. If we do that, we’ll get a good bill.”

Such a scenario might give Coburn, who counts Obama as a friend despite their different political views, more influence on the process. One of two physicians in the Senate, Coburn has been unable to make much headway with his proposal to expand health insurance coverage by subsidizing private policies through refundable tax credits.

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