Haley challenges Obama on health care, nuclear waste
Image via Wikipedia The Sun News: Gov.-elect Nikki Haley challenged President Obama over his landmark health insurance law Thursday in a candid, personal exchange in front of Cabinet members and newly elected governors from across the country but away from reporters. In an exchange recounted by Haley and confirmed by White House aides, Obama rejected Haley's request to repeal the health care bill - but said he'd consider letting states opt out of its mandates if they ran exchange programs, banned insurance firms from denying coverage of pre-existing conditions and enabled people to pool together for better rates. ... Haley's exchange with Obama on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump was less complicated. "The taxpayers of South Carolina have paid $1.2 billion to [develop a plan] to send our nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain," she said. "I asked him if he would consider honoring the federal commitment and allow waste to go to Yucca Mountain....