This morning Families USA and the SEIU hosted a forum on health care. The objective was to put health care reform at the top of the priority list for the next administration. Governor Kathleen Sebelius spoke about the importance of keeping health care at the top of the agenda. Health care is unique, she said, in that "if you use the product you’re buying then you’re a bad customer."

But as important as prioritizing health care in Congress and at the level of the White House is, it’s equally important to elect governors that prioritize health care, she said. The governors, who she called the "ground troops" of the health care battle, are the ones implementing any kind of reform that would come through Congress and be signed by the president.

We’ve seen a number of states, like Massachusetts, take on reforming health care. Deval Patrick, the governor of the state, noted at the forum that the bi-partisan health care reform passed in Massachusetts they had already cut the number of uninsured by 75 percent.

Finally, they ended the speech with an appearance from Sen. Hillary Clinton. She touched on a number of the same themes she did last night, again noting that any health care reform should include a mandate to cover all Americans. "We don’t have an option of doing nothing," Clinton noted, indicating that the costs of health care are much higher than they were in 1994, when her husband attempted to pass health care reform.

Still, as much as Clinton has emphasized that a mandate is non-negotiable and that it’s the only way to effectively control costs, she also noted that she might be open to negotiation. "We have let the perfect be the enemy of the good for too long," she said.