This is the reason that the President worked so hard to pass health care reform by working with Congress to pass it through the House, to pass it through the Senate.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest
While I am thrilled the budget assumes the passage of major health care reform this year, we still need to actually pass a health care reform bill for it to happen.
For health care to pass in a durable form it must build on this tradition.
The Democratic-led Congress hopes to pass health care measures by the end of the year.
And, by the way, that's why we fought so hard to pass health care reform, a.k.a.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Fairfax, VA
It is time to pass health care reform for America, and I am confident that you are going to do it tomorrow.
It is now up to Congress to keep PDUFA working and ensure the approval of one of the must-pass health policy legislations in 2012.
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Democrats found it was neither easy nor safe to pass health care reform, and doing so obviously had something to do with their losses in the 2010 midterm elections.
Faced with increasing pressure from the White House to pass health care legislation by early August, House Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would transform the nation's health care system if it becomes law.
If the House and Senate manage to pass health care reform bills, a conference committee would then negotiate a final version requiring approval from both chambers before going to President Obama for his signature.
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This evening President Obama met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) to discuss a variety of critical issues confronting Hispanics and all Americans, in particular the need to act now to pass health care reform.
President Barack Obama has worked closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass health care reform and other measures, but there are a number of private-sector figures whose names appear more frequently in White House visitor records.
Asked about potential contingency plans as Air Force One returned to the Washington area after President Obama's Sunday campaign rally for Coakley in Boston, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insisted to reporters the plan is to still pass health care reform with 60 votes.
If we're serious about strengthening small businesses, if we're serious about creating a climate where our entrepreneurs can succeed, if we're serious about giving you the chance to prosper and grow, I believe, this administration firmly believes, that we need to pass health insurance reform in the United States of America.
And at the White House, Nancy-Ann DeParle worked with Secretary Sebelius and so many others to help pass health reform, the bill that is a groundbreaking piece of legislation that includes really important provisions like requiring chain restaurants to post the calories in their food, and businesses to provide opportunities for working mothers to continue to breastfeed.
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Yet President Obama still considered the group important enough to pay a house call to its annual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, in recognition of the fact that while the AMA may not be able to dictate the terms of what type of health overhaul can pass Congress, it could still help gum up the process.
And President Bill Clinton never replicated the effort in 1993 to pass national health insurance.
It is so fire unsafe officials fear it would never pass any health and safety test.
And I kept my promise to pass a health reform bill without adding a dime to the deficit.
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In its rush to pass weak health care and financial reforms Congress has created a hornet's nest of antigrowth provisions.
On the House side, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has insisted the chamber pass a health care reform bill that includes a public option.
Working together, we can pass real health care reform that gives Americans the choices they deserve and the affordable, quality coverage they need.
She needs us to pass a health care plan that cuts costs and makes health care available and affordable for every single American.
Even strong advocates of the bill's creation of a right to sue HMOs acknowledge that rates will likely rise as health-care providers pass on insurance costs to customers.
What is the White House doing to convey that message to Senate Democrats who, as the President rightly noted, need to act if health care is to pass?
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton
Both Obama's supporters and his opponents have claimed that his presidency may well stand or fall on his ability to pass a health care reform law in the coming months.
The Medicare buy-in proposal is one element of a multi-pronged strategy a group of 10 moderate and liberal Democrats are developing in a complicated effort to secure the votes needed to pass the health legislation.
Obama aides have said the job will be crucial as the new administration overhauls financial-services regulations, attempts to pass universal health care and tries to forge a new approach to controlling emissions of greenhouse gases.
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