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From: Dave Lindorff
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:37 AM
Subject: "My Fellow Americans...': The Speech President Obama Should Giveto
Congress Next Week
"My Fellow AmericansS"
The Address President Obama Should Give to Congress Next Week
As imagined by Dave Lindorff
My Fellow Americans.
I stand before you a chastened president. I made a mistake. Two
mistakes really. (wild applause from Republican side)
I thought that Congress could do its job and through the
deliberative process, produce a health care reform plan that would win broad
support across the aisle and among all of you. But I'm afraid that I was
wrong. Health care is an enormous powerful industry in the country.
Literally thousands of lobbyists, carrying tens of billions of dollars in
campaign contributions and in the end have stymied reform. (some hissing)
Meanwhile, I have realized that the answer has been staring us
in the face all along.
And that was my second mistake. I told the American Medical
Association that while single-payer medical plans, where the government is
the insurer, might work well in other countries, the idea of government
running health care was not part of our American tradition. In fact, it is,
and has been since 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the
Medicare program. Medicare is a single-payer program, and polls and surveys
show it is enormously popular with older and disabled Americans. Medicare
has relieved our parents and grandparents from the fear that they will not
get medical care when they stop working, and it has lifted the enormous
burden and worry off of younger Americans over how to pay for the care of
their elders, and it has done this with enormous efficiency, all while
allowing recipients to choose their own doctors and hospitals. (applause)
So we really don¹t need to re-invent the wheel. There is no
point in members of Congress having to hold endless hearings, and to sit and
listen to the pitches of lobbyists from the medical establishment. We can
just expand Medicare to cover everyone. (applause)...
For the rest of this story, please go to:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
or
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-lindorff/my-fellow-americans-the-s_b_276852.html
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