Add another voice to the growing consensus of experts and stakeholders calling on Congress to pass a health reform bill -- former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
Speaking to reporters after an event at his Bipartisan Policy Center, Daschle said Congress should “do the right thing” by passing the Senate bill.
Doing so would require “political courage” but “You could argue that there is just as much political downside to not to pass this than to pass this,” Daschle argued. The Hill’s Walter Alarkon has more.
Daschle noted he was encouraged by what he was hearing from the Hill and noted that “millions and millions of dollars have been directed in a negative campaign to distort and to mislead the American people, and that's going to have an effect.”
Meanwhile the AP reports that Democratic leaders are “uniting around their last, best hope for salvaging President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul.” The strategy involves passing the Senate bill in the House and using the budget reconciliation process to fix some of House Democrats' concerns over subsidies, financing and related issues. It’s by no means an easy or clear path, but neither was long hard road to where we are today.
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