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The White House isn't about to pull the plug on heath care reform, aides said Sunday, although they acknowledged their job now is determining "the art of the possible."
"It's very clear, people don't want us to walk away from health care," David Axelrod, a senior Obama adviser, told ABC News' "This Week." "They want us to address their concerns with the program."
Five days after Democrats lost a key Senate seat in Massachusetts, Axelrod insisted the election's message was that voters want "cooperation instead of obstructionism."
Republicans, meanwhile - led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee - insisted their party was open to negotiating. He said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that Obama should consider some of the GOP's health care prescriptions, like limiting medical malpractice lawsuits, letting residents buy health insurance across state lines and tax credits for people who buy insurance on their own.
"We'd be willing to sit down and start over from the beginning," McCain said. "There are things we can agree on."
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