McCain: Kennedy Is Sorely Missed

Republican Sen. John McCain says the absence of ailing Ted Kennedy in pushing health-care reform has made a "huge, huge difference" in whether legislation gets passed.

McCain praised Kennedy, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, as a master negotiator who could bring together parties with different points of view and make the right concessions to reach agreement. McCain said health-care reform might be in a very different place today if Kennedy had been able to participate in the discussions.

Kennedy, a longtime advocate for universal health care, has been sidelined for months with a severe form of brain cancer.

McCain spoke in an interview for broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week."