Congress Must Resist Health Insurance Lobby: Obama

[elleng]

President Barack Obama warned on Saturday the country's powerful insurance industry was determined to thwart a dramatic improvement in patients' rights as it lobbies against his signature healthcare reforms.

"They want to preserve a system that works better for the insurance industry than it does for the American people," Obama said in his weekly Internet and radio address.

Arguing that measures incorporated in healthcare bills now before Congress add up to a "Patient's Bill of Rights" that has been a long-sought ambition of reformers, Obama urged senators to stop obstructing progress toward this goal.

"Let's bring this long and vigorous debate to an end. Let's deliver on the promise of health insurance reforms that will make our people healthier, our economy stronger, and our future more secure," Obama said.


http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/19/news/news-us-usa-healthcare-obama.html

[rpannier]

1. God that's almost funny nt

[dkf]

2. Kind of late for this no?

Bill is pretty much baked. Is it simply lip service to our requests that he lead?

[clear eye]

5. Nah. He always says one thing to the broad TV audience,

another to members of Congress, and a third thing to the younger, more left Internet & radio audience when he bothers to address to address it at all.

[dkf]

3. Kind of late for this no?

Bill is pretty much baked. Is it simply lip service to our requests that he lead?

[Demeter]

4. Obama Is Like Rip Van Winkle-Waking Up 20 Years Too Late