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Obama pleads for health care overhaul, vote looms (AFP)

US President Barack Obama (C) walks out of the Caucus Room with House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (L) and Congressman John Larson (2nd R) after a meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Obama hoped to bring the full persuasive power of the US presidency to bear in an 11th-hour push to secure the 218 votes needed to pass health care overhaul.(AFP/Jim Watson)AFP - President Barack Obama, fighting for his top domestic priority, urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to “vote yes” Saturday on the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century.

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