Obama is playing the politics of fear again.
If America wants health care reform, it's now or never.
That, of course, is ridiculous.
He claims that if his plan to overhaul the American health care system isn't passed within the year, it won't get done.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned Thursday that if Congress doesn't deliver health care legislation by the end of the year the opportunity will be lost, a plea to political supporters to pressure lawmakers to act.
"If we don't get it done this year, we're not going to get it done," Obama told supporters by phone as he flew home on Air Force One from a West Coast fundraising trip.
Obama's political organization, Organizing for America, invited campaign volunteers to a midday conference call to describe a nationwide June 6 kickoff for its health care campaign. The president's message to his re-election campaign-in-waiting was simple: If volunteers don't pressure lawmakers to support the White House's goal on health care, Washington would drag its feet and nothing would change.
"The election in November, it didn't bring about change. It gave us an opportunity for change," Obama said.
The president's conversation with his supporters was part pep talk and part reality. Obama is looking to use his network of supporters to deliver a campaign promise, and if Obama seeks a second term in 2012—an almost certainty—he hopes to keep many of those volunteers engaged in person and online.
I am praying to God Obama fails.
Health care reform doesn't have to mean socialized medicine.
We can't let Washington take over our health care.
I'm heartened by Americans organizing to stop this train wreck in the making.
Example: Patients United Now to host rally Friday at Women’s Park
There will be a rally in Helena Friday sponsored by a group opposed to the national health care reform being debated this summer.
Patients United Now, a project of Americans for Prosperity Foundation, is a coalition of patients, doctors and families who organizers say recognize the health care crisis and want to expand and preserve private health insurance options for Americans.
The rally will be in Women’s Park from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. Speakers will include state Sen. Dave Lewis, vice chairman of the state Joint Appropriation Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Steve Daines, vice president of RightNow Technologies; physical therapist Lorena Pettet; and attorney Tim Fox.
The rally is free and barbecue will be served.
For more about Patients United Now, visit www.patientsunitednow.org.
Watch an interview with Shona Holmes. Canadian health care almost killed her.
Obama has to fail at socializing our health care system.
2 comments:
you realize it is up to the Democrats to stop him?
Welcome to the era of socialist medicine.
The Dems will have to answer to their constituents. They want to save themselves.
The people need to make their voices heard.
There may be enough Dems to kill it.
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