Biden on summit: "This could end up being not good"

Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Democrats are ready to work with any good ideas Republicans bring to today’s White House summit on health care reform, but he also said the event “could be pure theater.”

“This could end up not being good,” Biden said in an exclusive interview with The News Journal. “But I know of no other way than to just keep pushing, saying, ‘Guys, OK, this is our idea. What’s your idea?’…

He also said that in the ideological fight over whether health care is a right or a privilege, the administration believes it’s “an absolute right.”

“You have as much right to have health care as you do to have an education in America,” he said. “You have as much right to have health care as you do to worship in your church.”