Providence Journal: Sen. Kennedy Helps Launch Obama Administration’s Health Care Effort

From The Providence Journal: President Obama yesterday launched his campaign to overhaul the nation’s medical system at a White House conference that featured expressions of support from across the industry and the political spectrum.

Mr. Obama declared after the half-day gathering of about 150 public officials, medical experts and business leaders from around the country that it had produced “a clear consensus that the need for health-care reform is here and now.”

The gathering also featured an emotional welcome for one of the nation’s most persistent champions of health-care reform, the ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. There were hints, however, of battlelines forming among the dozens of interested groups represented at the event.

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