Remarks by the President on Senate Passage of Health Insurance Reform

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 24, 2009.

THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everybody.  In a historic vote that took place this morning members of the Senate joined their colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass a landmark health insurance reform package — legislation that brings us toward the end of a nearly century-long struggle to reform America’s health care system.

Ever since Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform in 1912, seven Presidents — Democrats and Republicans alike —…