I went to Pittsburgh this weekend to encourage the drafters of the 2008 Democratic Party Platform to include guaranteed health care for all as a uniform Democratic principle.

I am pleased to inform you that we succeeded in this fight. The platform now includes the language:

"every American man, woman and child [should] be guaranteed to have affordable, comprehensive health care."

John Nichols wrote about our success in a piece for the Nation magazine. The full text of his article is here [1].