President Obama made a strong case, at the very end of today’s health care summit, for why now. After noting that we didn’t reform health care in good economic times, in mild recession, in peacetime, in time of war, he simply said, “There is always a reason not to do it.”
But now, he said, is a time when the people of the country are calling out for reform — and that the businesses of the country also are crying out for reform. Now is the smart economic time to do this, when the country is re-examining how we have everything set up. So now, he said, actually is the best time to tackle this reform.
Coverage of the summit can be found on CNN.
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political editor at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, The American Prospect, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found
Look. He’s clever and he’s using an agenda planned awhile ago. He’s going to use dog-and-pony shows appearing as summits with the greatest of minds appearing…and then carry forth his agenda as planned. He did it with the trillion dollar spending bill and now he’s going to do it again with the health plan. How? He already has $634 billion in a health-care reserve fund as a “down payment.” A down payment? How much will working people pay in extra taxes? What happened to the people who are losing jobs and homes? Why isn’t he concentrating on them? Because he has a SOCIALIST agenda and he’ll stay on it while denying it to our faces. Let your senators and representatives know he needs to stay on track. JOBS. JOBS. JOBS.