16 Senators Ask Obama & McCain to Start Work on Healthcare Reform

by Andy Barr - 07/28/08 5:07 PM ET

A bipartisan coalition of 16 senators has sent a letter to Barack Obama and John McCain asking the two presidential candidates to begin work on major healthcare reform legislation to avoid “a replay of the bitter, highly polarized health reform effort during the 1990’s.”

The letter was signed by the 16 cosponsors of S.334, the Healthy Americans Act. The letter urged both Obama and McCain to use the legislation, which has stalled in the Senate since being introduced in January 2007 by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), as a springboard for a reform package that could be signed into law early in the next president

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