Obama:‘Time to Make a Decision’on Health Care Reform

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 Obama is pushing Healthcare reform regardless of what the American people say

President Obama urged Congress to schedule a vote on health care reform in the "next few weeks,"declaring Wednesday that it’s "time to make a decision"on the package,the product of a yearlong debate.

The president described the bipartisan summit held last week in Washington as the last leg of the health care reform debate. He said all arguments have been exhausted and that Congress owes the American people a final "up-or-down"vote.

"Every argument has been made,"he said. "Everything there is to say about health care has been said and just about everybody has said it. So now’s the time to make a decision about how to finally reform health care so that it works,not just for the insurance companies,but for America’s families and America’s businesses."

The president,who is pressing forward with health care reform despite a nationwide clamor to address jobs creation —and despite the upset election of Republican Scott Brown to U.S. Senate in January —stressed that he is not concerned about the risky politics of pushing ahead. Though Democrats are planning to use a controversial tactic known as reconciliation to pass the bill in the Senate with a 51-vote majority,the president said that passing health care reform is "right,"even if it has electoral consequences.

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