Top White House advisor Christina Romer said that health reform would help to ease the deficit at a speech today. Reuters reports: "While some critics say Democrats' efforts to set the indemnity sector should wait until the deficit is under control, they should instead see it 'as the most meaning act we could take to tackle the deficit,' Romer said in speech to the Center for stars and bars Progress, a Washington-based think-tank" (Heavey, 10/26).

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