We learn in the latest TIME some of the contents of former President Bill Clinton?s recent health-care pep talk to Senate Democrats:
“It’s not important to be perfect here,” Clinton told reporters after his private lunch with the Democratic Senators. “It’s important to act, to move, to start the ball rolling. The worst thing to do is nothing.”
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Speaking from his experience of watching the slow death of his health care bill, Clinton told the Senators they must get one to Obama’s desk by the State of the Union address in January at the latest, according to one participant, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
Here?s the obvious question: What?s the rush? Especially with a bill that would do so many bad things.
