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elleng

(130,908 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2013, 09:31 PM Oct 2013

In Boston Speech, Obama Seeks to Reset Ideas About His Health Law.

Source: nyt/reuters

After four rocky weeks while his landmark health insurance law has been disparaged as poorly managed, expensive and disappointing, President Barack Obama will travel to Boston on Wednesday to try to reset expectations about Obamacare.

Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech in 271-year-old Faneuil Hall, where some of the seeds of the American revolution took root - and where on April 12, 2006, the start of another historic shift began.

Against the backdrop of a huge painting of a famous debate on preserving the union at a time when the nation verged on civil war, then-Republican Governor Mitt Romney signed a law mandating health insurance for most of the state's residents.

Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, who had long advocated for health reform, stood behind Romney's chair on the ornate dias, looking victorious, as state Democrats crowded around.

On Wednesday, Obama will try to channel that moment and draw lessons from the Massachusetts experience to argue that Obamacare.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/10/29/us/politics/29reuters-usa-healthcare-boston.html?hp

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In Boston Speech, Obama Seeks to Reset Ideas About His Health Law. (Original Post) elleng Oct 2013 OP
Oh damn. sheshe2 Oct 2013 #1
Sorry, she2! elleng Oct 2013 #2
Ugh. MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #3
Boston will be rocking tomorrow!! FailureToCommunicate Oct 2013 #4

sheshe2

(83,770 posts)
1. Oh damn.
Tue Oct 29, 2013, 09:35 PM
Oct 2013

I work tomorrow and won't be able to go.

Thanks for the heads up Ellen~ I will have to watch when I get home.

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