President Obama rallies support for final health care votes

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Source: Associated Press

President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that they seem all but banned: "If this vote fails."

What then? "The insurance industry will continue to run amok," the president declared, pointing to rising rates, denials of coverage and limits on care.

With Sunday's expected vote hanging on the support of just a handful of wavering Democrats, Obama delivered an energetic, 25-minute closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of his presidency and on which its future could pivot, at least for a time. Before an amped-up, campaign-style rally of several thousand at George Mason University in suburban Virginia, the president summoned both pragmatism and principle to sway the undecideds to his side.

He emphasized the bill's provisions that would go into effect this year, including those banning insurers from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, dropping coverage when a person becomes ill or imposing annual or lifetime limits on care, requiring free preventive care and allowing children to stay on parents' policies into their 20s.



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[pattmarty]

1. No, if this bill fails it'll be status quo (which is fucked up bad)............

......But if this bill passes it'll be WORSE than it is now AND harder to fix. The Dems fucked up this royally right from the start. Obama should have been on this right from the start pushing the good things (that have all been gutted from the bill) and hammering the Republicans. But he didn't and that is probably the biggest failing in this whole fucking mess. Over a year and this piece of shit is what we're left with.

[whathappened]

2. this is a peice of chit

they alway come up with a plan that once we open the door we will revisit it and make it better , what have they done to improve part d , nothing , it is still the same peice of shit bill it was when shit head rammed it thru , the same will go for this new healthcare bill , they will pat themselfs on the back , and go to giving themself another raise in the congress and fuck us some more ,

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[Doctor_J]

4. Despite huge concessions to the fringe right, no Repuke will vote for it

Disaster. I am glad something is being done, but I don't think he'll be able to do anything for the next 3 years - the Repukes know he's a pushover.