Obama calls for political courage in health care battle

Former US president Barack Obama urged lawmakers to follow their conscience and protect vulnerable Americans, as a Republican-backed bill that tore up his namesake health care reform law heads to the Senate.

Obama, speaking in Boston where on Sunday night he received a Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, said: "Courage means not simply doing what is politically expedient, but doing what they believe deep in their hearts is right."

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