In an interview with the Huffington Post, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod insisted that “we should finish health care.”
“We need to move forward aggressively, continuing on job creation, and on financial regulatory reform,” Axelrod told the Huffington Post. “But we should finish health care because the caricature of that bill is there and everyone who voted for it will have to live with that. The way to deal with that is to pass the bill and let people see… the value of it.”
It is not just getting the achievement under the belt. I think there are tangible benefits that people will accrue across this country as soon as this bill is signed. They will have more leverage, have more prescription drug coverage, Medicare is going to be extended by a decade… If we don’t pass it and [Obama] doesn’t sign it than the caricature created by the insurance industry and opponents in Congress will prevail and everyone will have to live with that. There is no political sense to that and I hope people will see that and move forward.
