President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that if health care reform didn’t take place this year, it won’t be completed during his presidency.
“We need health care reform legislation that works, that preserves what works about health care, that fixes the things that are broken. And I think the status quo is unacceptable ” said the president, on a conference call with volunteers for his leftover campaign arm, Organizing for America. “And we have to get it done this year. If we don’t get it done this year we are not going to get it done.”
Underscoring the high stakes of the debate, Obama called on his supporters to make the same organizational effort on behalf of health care that they did during the election. There were, he said, few more important issues facing his administration.
Obama: Health Care Reform This Year — Or Never.
