Well, folks, the time for talk is over. The health care summit is on next week, and the President is ready to rumble. In his town hall today in Henderson Nevada, he was fired up!
According to the Washington Post:
President Obama made an impassioned plea Friday for his health-care overhaul, challenging Republicans to come to the televised summit he is hosting next week with a plan to fix the system -- or get out of the way.
He further said:
"So show me what you've got," Obama said, speaking at a town hall meeting outside of Las Vegas. "But don't let the American people go another 10 years, another 20 years without health insurance in this country."
Even the crowd was fired up:
But questioners in the crowd of 1,700 repeatedly brought him back to the subject of health care. Jacket off, shirtsleeves rolled up, Obama sounded again like the health-care fighter he was last summer in a series of town hall meetings and speeches designed to move the massive overhaul through Congress.
I urge everyone to watch the townhall. It looks like after one long agonizing year of watching HCR (and the public option) die, live again, die, and finally resurrect, that this time it will be over with.
Obama is going to get this done:
"So show me what you've got," Obama said, speaking at a town hall meeting outside of Las Vegas. "But don't let the American people go another 10 years, another 20 years without health insurance in this country."
and:
But questioners in the crowd of 1,700 repeatedly brought him back to the subject of health care. Jacket off, shirtsleeves rolled up, Obama sounded again like the health-care fighter he was last summer in a series of town hall meetings and speeches designed to move the massive overhaul through Congress.
He further goes on to say during the townhall that his political advisors told him not to take it on at this point in his first term, that it would be too difficult, that his poll numbers would drop. But he disagreed with some of his advisors and did it because of the following reasons:
- The people he's met who are not able to get healthcare.
- The rising costs of healthcare for individuals and famillies.
- The effect of healthcare costs on the budget deficit.
So folks, you all have worked hard for what you believe in, and now is the time to continue to push, because as Obama said change comes from the bottom up. I know that some are dissapointed because they feel that he has not "led enough". However, it should be noted that we would never have gotten this close without his campaigning for, and pushing for this after he was inaugurated in the first place.
The time to finish health care reform is now!