Bill Clinton: “Health care is a primary provider of jobs in every State that I know of and certainly in the cities across the country.…”

“Health care is a primary provider of jobs in every State that I know of and certainly in the cities across the country. Our hospitals, nursing homes, home health programs, physicians offices are all providing employment. That is why it was so important that we tried to address this last year. We could not get past the procedural roadblocks, despite the best efforts of Senator Grassley and Senator Baucus. I supported their proposals. Now we have to act because we are on the brink of an emergency. I want to make sure that the modified version of the amendment with the offsets we have found is at the desk because there seems to have been some confusion.”