Obama: Seize The Moment- Health Care Can't Wait

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Right now in Washington, our Senate and House of Representatives are both debating proposals for health insurance reform. Today, I want to speak with you about the stakes of this debate, for our people and for the future of our nation.

This is an issue that affects the health and financial well-being of every single American and the stability of our entire economy.

It’s about every family unable to keep up with soaring out of pocket costs and premiums rising three times faster than wages. Every worker afraid of losing health insurance if they lose their job, or change jobs. Everyone who’s worried that they may not be able to get insurance or change insurance if someone in their family has a pre-existing condition.

It’s about a woman in Colorado who told us that when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, her insurance company – the one she’d paid over $700 a month to – refused to pay for her treatment. She had to use up her retirement funds to save her own life.

It’s about a man from Maryland who sent us his story – a middle class college graduate whose health insurance expired when he changed jobs. During that time, he needed emergency surgery, and woke up $10,000 in debt – debt that has left him unable to save, buy a home, or make a career change.

It’s about every business forced to shut their doors, or shed jobs, or ship them overseas. It’s about state governments overwhelmed by Medicaid, federal budgets consumed by Medicare, and deficits piling higher year after year.

This is the status quo. This is the system we have today. This is what the debate in Congress is all about: Whether we’ll keep talking and tinkering and letting this problem fester as more families and businesses go under, and more Americans lose their coverage. Or whether we’ll seize this opportunity – one we might not have again for generations – and finally pass health insurance reform this year, in 2009.

Now we know there are those who will oppose reform no matter what. We know the same special interests and their ...

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[zizzy60]

Obama...the USELESS 1/2 Nigger. 

[mrcarlitos192]

Obama Rocks he is the only president ever to give us the human right to live

[TheTrueDavid]

It is about time everyone in America has healthcare!

President Obama must be praised for implementing it.

[timmunst]

Would it really be a catastrophe if all this health care bill were properly reviewed, debated, and voted on?

Or maybe President Obamas Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was speaking the truth when he said: Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is its an opportunity to do things you couldnt do before.

[martyjohn93]

No matter, everyone will always complain about the government and how it is being run. For everyone who sits on youtube all day bitching and moaning...no one cares...you all say the exact same thing, and disregard that fact that the last ten comments before you all said the same exact thing you are saying.  Ridiculous

[whovian1971]

So I don't have the right to be healthy and survive?

[mssedmebich]

Lets pass a bill that almost nobody in congress has read because it hasn't even been written yet. They promise to give us the details when its passed. So much for transperancy in the Obama government.

[fletcho11]

Maybe you should take a close look at the health care reform that Obama want you to endorse , because he thinks check-ups are costing too much money , so we will just wait till you get cancer then we will try and make you better ! Look at what is being offered before you listen to what you are being told !!

[dkkght46]

Funny how Obama, Pelosi, Reid put the CBO in charge. The CBO come out with figures that Obama is NOT going to save any money in healthcare, rather MAKE the deficit larger and larger whereby we will all be paying MORE for healthcare, he sloffs it off, ignoring the man he put in charge, saying that he didn't have his facts straight, Pelosi and Reid say the same thing after the CBO report

Question: Who do you believe?

[USAallDAY911]

blah blah blah. Same policies as BUSH!