Sen. Arlen Specter, who left the Republican party and was one of the 60 Democrats to vote for comprehensive national health reform, doesn’t want that vote to go for naught.Reform remains necessary. Reform remains achievable, he told the Pennsylvania Progressive forum this weekend.
He called for the House and Senate to simultaneously approve a package offixes to the Senate health bill, and send it to the president. Those fixes should include cutting out the deals for Nebraska, Louisiana “and the other inappropriate measures.”
"I believe we ought to pass comprehensive health care reform and we ought to do it now and there is a way to do it," Specter said. "I provided the 60th vote. We passed it in the Senate. Let the House accept it, simultaneously with a bill to make certain changes through reconciliation and 50 votes… Let's move ahead and let's move ahead now."
(Hat tip to Huffington Post.)
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