WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Tackling U.S. healthcare reform during fiscal hard times is not irresponsible, Christina Romer, chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said Wednesday.
"Some have argued that it is irresponsible to reform our healthcare system at a time when the budget deficit is so large and our long-run fiscal problems are so severe," Romer said Wednesday in an address before the Center for American Progress in Washington. "I firmly believe the opposite: It is fiscally irresponsible not to do healthcare reform."