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Last Chance to Vote in the Health Reform Video
Challenge

post from Obama HQ on 06 November 2009 11:31:34 PM. © Obama HQ

The deadline to vote on your favorite videos in the OFA Health Reform Video Challenge is tonight at midnight. The winning video will air as part of a national television ad buy as we enter the final stages of the health reform fight:

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House Vote Scheduled for Tomorrow

post from Obama HQ on 06 November 2009 10:27:03 AM. © Obama HQ

From Mitch Stewart:

This is it -- the House of Representatives will vote on health insurance reform tomorrow. All signs point to it being incredibly close, possibly even coming down to a single vote.

With the clock ticking, insurance company lobbyists are going all out to stop reform. Please call your represenative now.

President Obama is visiting the House tomorrow to call for reform, and I hope you'll add your voice to his right away. If you haven't called before, now is the time. And if you have recently called, thank you -- now please ask friends, family members, and co-workers in your district to join you.

http://my.barackobama.com/HouseVote

Everything we're fighting for comes down to moments like this -- and every second counts.

Thanks for stepping up,

Mitch

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House Vote Scheduled for Saturday

post from Obama HQ on 06 November 2009 10:27:03 AM. © Obama HQ

From Mitch Stewart:

This is it -- the House of Representatives will vote on health insurance reform tomorrow. All signs point to it being incredibly close, possibly even coming down to a single vote.

With the clock ticking, insurance company lobbyists are going all out to stop reform. Please call your represenative now.

President Obama is visiting the House tomorrow to call for reform, and I hope you'll add your voice to his right away. If you haven't called before, now is the time. And if you have recently called, thank you -- now please ask friends, family members, and co-workers in your district to join you.

http://my.barackobama.com/HouseVote

Everything we're fighting for comes down to moments like this -- and every second counts.

Thanks for stepping up,

Mitch

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Morning News

post from Obama HQ on 06 November 2009 10:03:55 AM. © Obama HQ

From the Boston Globe

An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post yesterday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States...
President Obama called the shooting at the Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening, “a horrific outburst of violence.’’
“It’s difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas,’’ Obama said. “It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil.’’

From USA Today

As the U.S. House prepares to vote on the most sweeping expansion of health care coverage in four decades, President Obama heads to Capitol Hill on Friday to make a push for a bill that now has the support of powerful groups representing retirees and doctors…
The legislation got important last-minute support from the nation's largest association of retirees, AARP, and the American Medical Association…
Obama celebrated with an impromptu appearance before White House reporters. "I am extraordinarily pleased and grateful," he said. "We are closer to passing this reform bill than ever before."
Pelosi on Thursday called the bill "historic," and said it will provide coverage for 36 million more Americans.

From The New York Times

House Republican leaders have produced their own health care reform bill. Here is the first thing you need to know: It would do almost nothing to reduce the scandalously high number of Americans who have no insurance. And it makes only a token stab at slowing the relentlessly rising costs of medical care…
The Republican bill is an amalgam of market-oriented and state-based reforms that conservatives have long proposed, including enhancement of tax-sheltered accounts to help pay premiums and allowing people to buy insurance in other states that might permit skimpier benefits than their home state.
It has some good provisions, such as prohibiting insurers from imposing annual or lifetime caps on what they will pay and automatic enrollment of workers in employer-sponsored group coverage. But it would not prevent insurers from denying coverage or charging higher premiums based on pre-existing conditions...

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The Presidents Statement Doesnt Connect

I was discouraged this morning when I caught the President?s remarks from the Rose Garden about the Fort Hood shooting and persistently high unemployment. Obama looked more like a White House staffer reading a statement than a President connecting with Americans over their grief and pain.

Don?t read to us. Talk to us in your own words. Feel it and mean it.

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