Senators Stress the Importance of Bipartisan Agreement in Health Care Reform

Sep. 10, 2009

Washington, D.C. – Former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle and Bob Dole, members of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Advisory Board and Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care, issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s address to a Joint Session of Congress:

“We urge Members of Congress of both parties to heed the President’s call for action. Bipartisanship, indeed progress on this issue at any meaningful level, requires give and take by all sides. Our process of collaboration at the Bipartisan Policy Center --- and the policy it produced -- offers hope and one way to go about it. One way or the other, though, keeping in mind the costs, the time has come for the nation and its elected representatives to finally address this long unmet challenge.”

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Leaders' Project on the State of American Health Care, Bipartisanship