When you lose your job or your aunt gets cancer you will still have medical insurance.When your child gets a catastrophic illness your insuruer can not drop your coverage.If your wife gets diabetes she may no longer be dropped from your insurance company.If your father loses his job he will not be denied insurance any longer because he has high blood pressure.
You may spit on those people. You may call those who have a skin color different than your own racial slurs.You may call a homosexual bigoted names.This is your nation as well as theirs.
Those same people are motivated by caring and courage traits so far we have not seen from you.We are not offended by your callous disrespect towards our choice of national leaders.We love this nation and all of our fellow citizens
Somewhere in America today a small business will not have to drop it's employee health care plan today.Somewhere in America a college student will be re-added to his or her parent's health plan.Somewhere in America a senior citizen is relaxing knowing a check is on the way for next months prescription so they can pay that electric bill.
If you ask some people who have been lied into fears so illogical they have adapted themselves to behaviour similar to what is written in Lord of the Flies.
No one is penalizing you and no one is stealing your nation.We are not an angry society we are a caring society.To the young people who are invincible and feel as though you do not need insurance you may be angry because your going to be forced to buy insurance.To you I say in about ten years when you get high blood pressure or tomorrow night when you are injured through no fault of your own you will thank us.When you need society and you will you we will be here for you.No one is a libertarian when they need an ambulance.No one is against health care when they walk through a children's cancer ward.American's have always risen up and taken all with them.Remember we have always been a nation of contrarians.Even as we fought for our freedom there were Tories who sided with other England.They either sailed back our remained and became a part of their new country.
Many thought it was bad to integrate our military ,many thought it was bad to vote for medicare.Some of the very people that were protesting against this health care bill are recipients of Medicare.The same Medicare that was battled against in the 1960's when they were young and strong.Perhaps they may want to look back before they vote forward.
Every time we make history in this nation we have some that are against the initial enactment of those policies that start history.That has never changed and I suppose it never will.
As a democratic republic I wouldn't want it any other way.You are free to spit .spew hate,and prophesize doom for The United States of America.We need your voices to show the rest of us how not to be.We need you to teach our children and grandchildren what ignorance look like and how not to emulate it.
America will march forward and your voices will lower in reverance when you or yours need health care or heaven forbid fall victim to a catastrophic illness.To you I say no thanks needed we want you and yours to be cared for just as our own.The reason is because we are a nation of courageous citizens not and you are my fellow countrymen.
When the status quo is no longer accptable we never lost sight of what we were fighting for and when you opposed us we knew the truth and strode ahead with faith and hope for your children and their children.
Because we love this nation just as you do we took that ride seperately and that's fine.
Today is a new day in America for all.Today is a good day.I have seen the Medicare and Civil Rights Bills enacted in my lifetime and a honored to share this day with every single of my fellow citizens regardless of how they felt .Today I know I cared for you and that is good enough for me.