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...passage there are considered good. Only then will the issue have a chance to get attention in the Senate, where a similar but weaker bill has already been introduced. Unless it gets bogged down by health-care legislation, the Senate is likely to approve some version of food-safety reform. The best assurance of stronger controls is the fear that inaction could lead to inevitable consequences. "What are they going to do," asks Foreman, "if there's another outbreak and they don't pass anything...
...election rallies - there he was, standing in front of thousands of supporters in a flag-draped high school gym in a swing state - well, that was really the point. The President journeyed to Green Bay, Wis., to lend his popularity to the cause of health-care reform, hoping to bring to bear all the campaign skills that got him to the White House in the first place...
...coming weeks, there are going to be different ideas and disagreements about how to achieve this goal. And I welcome all ideas. We've got to have a good debate," he declared. "What I will not welcome, what I will not accept, is endless delay or a denial that reform needs to happen." As Obama's comments suggested, he is leaving it to the lawmakers, the lobbyists and the interest groups back in Washington to work out the gritty details of how to "fix what's broken" and "build on what works." His job, as he sees...
...that, Obama is also relying on many of the high-tech grass-roots organizing techniques that worked so well for his presidential campaign. Last weekend the Organizing for America operation that was spun off from his campaign organization held health-care-reform house parties around the country. On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee launched a new website that it calls the Health Care Action Center. It has tools to help supporters to organize and to share their personal health-care stories, as well as to write letters to editors and contact congressional representatives...
...course, the inconvenient difference between campaigning and governing is that the latter requires actual choices and compromise. In the case of health-care reform, Obama at some point will have to deal not only with conservative opposition but also with the expectations of his liberal base. Already, supporters of single-payer health care - a government-financed system similar to that of Canada or Britain - are complaining that they have been shut out of the conversation. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...