Richard Kirsch, National Campaign Manager for Health Care for America Now, said in a statement responding to President Obama’s speech to Congress that his group, the nation’s largest health care campaign, “will continue to rally Americans at the grassroots nationwide to make sure Congress enacts health insurance reforms that deliver on the President’s historic charge this year.”
President Obama issued a clarion call for reforms that will guarantee all Americans have good, affordable coverage, directly taking on the insurance industry that wants to protect its profits and his political opponents who are engaging in fear-mongering for partisan purposes. He reaffirmed his support for the reforms that are essential to achieving his goals: assuring that people get good health coverage at work; strict regulation of the insurance industry; competition between private insurers and a new public health insurance option; and shared responsibility between individuals, employers and government in paying for coverage. The President reminded us that those who have opposed government programs like Social Security and Medicare in the past are once again working to deny history.
