Health Care Reform is Critically Important, But So is Getting Americans Back to Work

robertreich.blogspot.com — I sincerely hope America gets genuine health reform and I hope it's stronger than what's emerging in the Senate. But Obama's focus on health care rather than jobs, when the economy is still so fragile and unemployment moving toward double digits, could make it appear that the administration has its priorities confused. While affordable health care is critically important to Americans, making a living is more urgent. Yet the administration's efforts to date on this more basic concern have been neither particularly visible nor coherent.