I just finished laying out my plan for health reform at a joint session of Congress. Now, I'm writing directly to you because what happens next is critical -- and I need your help.
Change this big will not happen because I ask for it. It can only come when the nation demands it. Congress knows where I stand. Now they need to hear from you.
Add your voice: Ask your representatives to support my plan for real health reform in 2009.
http://my.barackobama.com/SupportReform
The heart of my plan is simple: bring stability and security to Americans who already have health insurance, guarantee affordable coverage for those who don't, and rein in the cost of health care.
Tonight, I offered a specific plan for how to make it happen. I incorporated the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans to create a plan that's bold, practical, and represents the broad consensus of the American people.
We've come closer to real health reform in the last few months than we have in the last 60 years. But those who profit from the status quo -- and those who put partisan advantage above all else -- will fight us every inch of the way.
We do not seek that fight, but we will not shrink from it. The stakes are too high to let scare tactics cloud the debate, or to allow partisan bickering to block the path. Your voice, right now, is essential.
See my full plan and call on your representatives to support it:
http://my.barackobama.com/SupportReform
Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
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It's a first step of many on a long road of recovery. To reversing damage done already to our American rights of freedom from legalized hiway robbery impossed in the past by greedy corporational unjust rulings. However, objectional it may be to a minority of shallow thinking misinformed naive Americans. While it lacks perfections. It at lest addresses a core misguidedness that has allowed financial as well as physical ailments to devour our American standards of healthiness. Thanks Kevin for posting this heads up.
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While I am clearly and absolutely for health reform, and support Pres. Obama in many ways, I believe this health reform he has presented has "loose ends" that will cost our country deeply in the end. There are many areas in the plan that need addressed..... and secured before I'm satisfied we have a good plan.
Fingers crossed in hopes... but not blindly!
Don
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You and I are on the same page. I wrote this last night, and I will join in your effort! Thanks! Kevin!
Health Care For All Americans
Here in my
elder season;
able-body, yet
looking toward winter,
tired but never weary,
humbled by gray hairs...
Could it be
all these years I've labored
rewards me no stability when
entering into my aged time?
Future looks bleak,
options few.
reasons unknown...
Agitated by soaring costs,
lost vision in opposing views
layered beneath political, irate debate.
Anyone know why
many U.S. citizens
empty already void purses and wallets?
rationing pennies to make nickels
in a country known for its worth
color me insane, maybe aloof--
all of us deserve to be well
not one of us should die
starving for healthcare.
Thanks Kevin! I will go to these links and give you and President Obama my full support along with my daily prayers.
Much Love ♥
Renee
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thanks, kevin for the information. I will check more into it later today when I have the chance.
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Thanks Kevin. I was real stoked about it before all the compromising began. Now I just hope for anything good to come out of it.
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