Sen. Hillary Clinton wants her health care agenda included in the platform of the party that nominates Sen. Barack Obama for the presidency, and the platform committee of the Democratic National Committee has started playing with the wording.

The committee charged with crafting a platform for the Democrats agreed today in Cleveland to call health care "a shared responsibility between employers, workers, insurers, providers and government. All Americans should have coverage they can afford."

For the 47 million Americans who are uninsured, both Clinton and Obama have campaigned for "universal health care,'' though in the primary contest Clinton claimed that Obama's plans would leave a lot of people uncovered.

Michael Yaki, an Obama aide who directed the platform committee meetings this weekend, calls the language a recognition there may be more than one way to achieve the shared goal of universal coverage.

""There's no real consensus yet on which is the best health care reform to do other than we are committed to universality and we're committed to getting there," Yaki said. "We believe that as you make health care more affordable, people will be able to buy health care -- that's the basic principle. How we get there is a matter of the legislative process."

Chris Jennings, a Clinton backer and drafting committee member, lobbied for stronger language in the interest of promoting Clinton's plan, particularly on the question of that "shared responsibility."

""It was important that that was stated quite clearly in the platform," said Jennings, who served as health care adviser to former President Clinton. He calls the committee's first steps "an honorable accommodation that illustrates a commitment to unity."

The drafting committee met privately for more than two hours over breakfast today, emerging with a draft to be approved Saturday when the full platform committee meets in Pittsburgh. The final proposal will go to the Democratic convention starting Aug. 25 in Denver.

"While there are differing approaches within the party about how best to achieve the commitment of universal coverage, we stand united to achieve this fundamental objective through the legislative process," the draft states.

Anyone who opposes providing health care for ALL Americans, in the richest country in the world, is simply immoral and without a soul. They can throw around words like "socialist" and "freedom" and "liberty", but when a person is diagnosed with cancer, alzheimer's or some other terminal disease, the most important freedom to that person is to receive the care he or she needs without having to battle insurance companies while fighting for his or her life. I have no respect for anyone who opposes universal health care. Such an individual is simply irredeemable.

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