U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday reiterated his commitment to passing health care. Obama's comments come just days after a major defeat for the Democratic Party, when now-Senator Scott Brown won the Senate seat in Massachusetts-a seat previously held by the late Ted Kennedy. The fight for expanded health care coverage served to be the cornerstone of Kennedy's years in service, and is now Obama's top domestic priority. "I know folks in Washington are in a little bit of a frenzy this week, trying to figure out what the election in Massachusetts the other day means for health insurance reform," Obama said at an event in Elyria, Ohio. "I am not going to walk away [from the health care debate] just because it's hard. We're going to keep on working to get this done with Democrats, Republicans - anyone who is willing to step up," he said. The election in Massachusetts took away the Democrat's voting majority in the Senate. "I had no illusions [that it would be easy] when I took on health care. It was always going to be hard," Obama said. "And I'm going to keep up the fight for real, meaningful health insurance reforms," he said to the crowd at Lorain County Community College Town Hall.
