Obama: A vote against healthcare measure is a vote against reform
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President Obama, fighting to assemble the votes needed for passage of healthcare legislation after more than a year of pressing Congress for action, says that a vote for the bill will be a vote for reform -- and a vote against it, against reform.
‘I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate,’’ Obama said in an interview with the Fox News Channel. ‘What I can tell you is that the vote that’s taken in the House will be a vote for healthcare reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for healthcare reform.
‘And I don’t think we should pretend otherwise,’’ the president said, pointing to the motivation behind critics attempting to block the bill. ‘If they don’t, if they vote against it, then they’re going to be voting against healthcare reform and they’re going to be voting in favor of the status quo.’’
-- Mark Silva