Bill Clinton: 'Hillary Will Be The Happiest Person In America' If Health Care Reform Passes

A Democratic victory on the health care reform front would make many in the Obama Administration happy, and none more so than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton said after a meeting with Senate Democrats on Tuesday.

"Maybe Hillary will be the happiest person in America. I'll be the second happiest person. Even more than President Obama, even more than Rahm, even more than all the people that have been laboring over this forever. I just want it to pass and I think it will," Clinton told reporters, according to Roll Call.

During Bill Clinton's first term, HIllary Clinton was put in charge of spearheading a health care reform initiative that was eventually be thwarted by Congressional Republicans.

It "doesn't have to be perfect," Clinton said of the final health care reform bill. "Just remember that the economists at USC and Harvard said that if any version of these bills passes it will bend the cost curve in health care so much that it will add 250,000 to 400,000 jobs a year in the economy for a decade."