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"Let's put the best ideas on the table," Obama told reporters after meeting with congressional leaders of both parties. "My hope is that we can find enough overlap that we can say, this is the right way to move forward, even if I don't get every single thing that I want." Obama's overarching goals are to rein in medical costs and expand coverage to millions of uninsured. Specifically, Obama said he'd be willing to work on ways to limit medical malpractice lawsuits — one of the main ideas Republicans have for reducing costs, by addressing the problem of defensive medicine. Democrats, who count trial lawyers among their most generous contributors, especially in an election year, have blocked all previous attempts to tackle the issue. Obama's flexibility marks a contrast with the approach former President Bill Clinton took in the 1990s when his health care overhaul got bogged down in Congress. Clinton sternly waved his veto pen at lawmakers and threatened to reject any legislation that fell short of his goal of covering all Americans. The bill died, and Democrats lost control of Congress in the 1994 midterm election. Still, Republican leaders expressed renewed skepticism about Obama's call for bipartisanship and reiterated their demand that Obama jettison the PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA LISTENS to a reporter's question as he makes an unannounced visit to the James Brady Briefing Room for the daily press briefing Tuesday, Feb. 9 at the White House in Washington. AP photo Democratic bills and start from scratch. "It's going to be very difficult to have a bipartisan conversation with regard to a 2,700-page health care bill that the Democrat majority in the House and the Democrat majority in the Senate can't pass," said House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio. "It really is time to scrap the bill and start over." Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky echoed those sentiments, even though the White House says Obama has no plans to set the clock back to beginning. Republicans may run political risks if they just say no. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that most Americans want Congress and the president to keep working on a comprehensive health care overhaul. Two-thirds supported the goal in the survey, released Tuesday. Nearly 6 in 10 said Republicans aren't doing enough to find compromise with Obama, while more than 4 in 10 said Obama is doing too little to get GOP support. Obama said he's not interested in starting over on health care, with five congres- sional committees holding new rounds of hearings and bill-drafting sessions. "What I don't think makes sense — and I don't think the American people want to see — would be another year of partisan wrangling around these issues," he said. But he said he's open to "starting from scratch" as long as three major goals are met: reducing costs, curbing insurance company practices such as coverage denials, and expanding coverage to millions of people who buy their own policies or work for a small employer. "I will be open to any ideas that help promote these goals," Obama said. If lawmakers can't overcome partisanship and policy differences and the health care bill dies as a result, Obama said the alternative is not good. He pointed to a 39 percent premium hike just announced by California's largest for-profit seller of individual health insurance policies, Anthem Blue Cross. Insurers say part of the problem is that healthy people hit by the economic downturn are dropping coverage, raising premiums for everybody else left in the pool. Los Angeles-area foothills under mudslide threat LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. 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The National Weather Service downgraded its flash flood warning for the area to a flash flood watch Tuesday evening, but warned that another half-inch of rain could still hit the region, where up to about an inch had fallen over the course of a day. "It looks like there are some good thunderstorms in this next wave coming through," forecaster Stuart Seto said. "That could compound the problems the have already occurred there." About 60 to 70 percent of the region's residents ordered to evacuate had complied, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. "They know what's at stake," said sheriff's Sgt. Bob Furman, who was taking a lap along the mud-crusted streets to clear out stragglers. "They've been through this before." Lyn Slotky, 62, packed a red suitcase holding a change of clothes and her nervous Labrador into her Honda hatchback. 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