NPR: White House Takes On Health Care Overhaul

From NPR Morning Edition: President Obama hosts the White House Forum on Health Reform Thursday. The last time Democrats tried to overhaul the nation's health care system was in 1994.

That's when, with a Democratic majority in Congress, President Bill Clinton laid down a challenge in his State of the Union address: "If you send me legislation that does not guarantee every American private health insurance that can never be taken away, you will force me to take this pen, veto the legislation, and we'll come right back here and start all over again."

Clinton never had to veto a health care bill because Congress never sent him one. The Clintons' health care reform effort failed.

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