Steele: After Taxes, a Million Dollars Is Not a Lot of Money

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and potential Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. agreed Thursday that Americans want action now on health care reform, but disagreed about how to achieve it.

Steele and Ford -- who is considering a run for a U.S. Senate seat in New York -- faced off on health care, taxes, abortion and other issues for more than 90 minutes during a joint appearance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Steele said Republicans aren't opposed to health care reform, but want something that results from consensus.

"The American people want this ball moved and they want it moved now in a way that represents real effort to build consensus towards national health care reform as opposed to the partisan back and forth they've seen over the past year," Steele said.