Obama On Health Reform: "Let's Get It Done"

Obama On Health Reform: "Let's Get It Done"
Wednesday January 27, 2010
After thirty-four minutes of speaking on everything from a new jobs bill, proposed banking fees, a spending freeze (to take effect after one year), and financial reform, President Obama finally discussed the sensitive issue of health reform in his State of the Union address. However, on his first few statements on the issue, he referred to it as "health insurance reform" instead of "health care reform".
Obama went on to say that he did not take on the issue of health reform to gain political popularity, but because of the "stories he has heard" from American families. He asked members of Congress to "take another look" at the health reform plans that have been proposed. According to Obama, the proposed health reform currently in legislation is considered by nurses, doctors, and medical professionals to be a "vast improvement" over the current health care system. The level of support that medical professionals have for health reform is a sweeping generalization that Obama repeats often, but there seems to be little or no supporting statistics or documentation of that support.

Obama went on to urge Americans and lawmakers not to walk away from reform efforts, ". . . not when we are so close." After taking his "share of the blame" for the failure of health reform to pass to date, Obama continued to extoll the virtues of health reform. He described once again how Americans could keep their plan and their doctor, and that health reform would reduce the deficit by $1 trillion over the course of a decade. He also warned of the dangers of ignoring or dismissing the issue of health reform, including increasing premiums, and additional loss of coverage and denial of care. It was more of the same in terms of Obama's "hard sell" on health reform. Do you disagree with the proposed health reform bill? Obama wants to hear from you. In a curious closing statement on the topic of health reform, the President said to "let [him] know" if anyone has a better plan; he is "eager to see it."

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