Reprinted with permission from The Hill

There is a familiar saying that the perfect can be the enemy of the good. The healthcare reform legislation announced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is "the good" for which we have been waiting, and I believe it offers the only viable option to finally achieve the changes necessary to ensure quality, affordable healthcare for American families.

Despite rhetoric that this year's healthcare debate is too hurried and in haste, the fact is that this discussion and necessary action is long overdue. For almost a century, we have been struggling to improve our healthcare system. The last time we tried, in the 1990s, President Clinton's health reform proposals failed under the weight of the same type of misinformation running rampant today. Opponents said then the same thing they are saying now, that reform is needed - just not this reform. They made the perfect the enemy of the good. And the enemy won. We cannot let that happen again.

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