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Healthcare for All

The American people understand that good health is the foundation of individual achievement and economic prosperity. Ensuring quality, affordable health care for every single American is essential to children's education, workers' productivity and businesses' competitiveness. We believe that covering all is not just a moral imperative, but is necessary to making our health system workable and affordable. Doing so would end cost-shifting from the uninsured, promote prevention and wellness, stop insurance discrimination, help eliminate health care disparities, and achieve savings through competition, choice, innovation, and higher quality care.

Health care reform must also provide adequate incentives for innovation to ensure that Americans have access to evidence-based and cost-effective health care. Research should be based on science, not ideology. For the millions of Americans and their families suffering from debilitating physical and emotional effects of disease, time is a precious commodity, and it is running out.

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September 12, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address

September 15, 2009 - In his weekly address the President talks about the reality of Americans losing health insurance coverage. In referencing a Treasury Department report the President says that half of all Americans under 65 years old will lose their health coverage in the next ten years. After the President signs his plan into law Americans will never again have to go without health insurance. In the United States of America no one should worry they will go without health insurance.
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The President's Plan: Stability & Security for all Americans

September 14, 2009 - President Obama spoke to a special joint session of Congress and the American people to outline his plan for health insurance reform. The core of his plan: provide more security and stability for people who have insurance, provide quality, affordable care to those who don’t, and rein in skyrocketing costs that are crushing American families, businesses and the government itself.
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The Character of Our Country

September 9, 2009 - President Obama shared the contents of a letter he received from Senator Ted Kennedy – penned weeks after he learned his cancer was terminal, and delivered to President Obama upon the Senator's passing.
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The President's Remarks to a Joint Session of Congress: "Stability and security for all Americans"

September 9, 2009 - Tonight, President Obama spoke to a special joint session of Congress and the American people to outline his plan for health insurance reform. The core of his plan: provide more security and stability for people who have insurance, provide quality, affordable care to those who don't, and rein in skyrocketing costs that are crushing American families, businesses and the government itself.
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Healthcare for All

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September 12, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address

The President's Plan: Stability & Security for all Americans

The Character of Our Country

The President's Remarks to a Joint Session of Congress: "Stability and security for all Americans"

Setting the Record Straight

The President's Plan for Health Reform

Not the First, Determined to Be the Last

President Obama at the OFA National Health Care Forum

Strategy Meeting with President Obama

Why We Need Health Care Reform

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