Politico is reporting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is proposing a two track approach to health care reform: less controversial incremental changes now with more sweeping changes tabled until a later date when the political climate improves.
"We believe that it's possible to have comprehensive health care reform as we go forward, but at the same time, it can be on another track where some things can just be passed outside of that legislation, and we'll be doing both," Pelosi said in an interview with POLITICO.
Though the Democrats' loss of Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat has complicated efforts to get the 60 votes they need for a sweeping health care bill, Pelosi insisted that comprehensive reform is still on the agenda.
"We have to get it done," the speaker said. "What the process is doesn't matter. The outcome is what is important, and what it means to working families in America."
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