By Aaron Richardson-Talk Radio News Service Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Joseph Levitt, former Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke to reporters today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Both answered questions from the press on why they thought U.S. healthcare reform is needed and purposed strategies on how to make it a reality. “(The U.S. has) not succeeded in the past in part because we (Congress) has failed to come together and reach the common ground to do something,” Daschle said. With the November election of Barak Obama as U.S. President and so many Americans unable to access healthcare there is a new diligence to come to some type of agreement on how to alleviate the problem. Insurance companies are the greatest critics of making universal healthcare a reality, both men said. “Are we designing this system for the insurance companies or are we designing it for the American people?” said Levitt.