Ax: Obama Not Looking for a "Symbolic" Win On Health Care

CHRIS FRATES

In another sign that President Obama is still working for a big, comprehensive health care bill, senior White House adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that Obama is not looking for a "symbolic" win.

"His goal and his interest is not in scoring a symbolic, making a symbolic gesture, not putting up votes for the sake of putting up votes, but in actually getting something done and that's what he's working towards," he said on C-SPAN Newsmakers.

Asked why Obama won't weigh in on a legislative strategy to move the stalled effort, Axelrod said, "I think people would like the president to be able to say, just snap his fingers and finish this out. The fact is it's more complex than that."

The president is still working on getting the votes to move it forward and that takes time, he said.