Obama team fires up grass roots machine for health care

Organizing for America, Barack Obama's grass roots machine, is launching a big push for health care reform in Florida and across the country. Volunteers will be reaching out to neighbors, friends, and members of congress to push for quick action on health care reform.

"Florida just simply cannot afford to delay reform for another administration or even one more year. Skyrocketing health care costs are straining family budgets, they're threatening businesses' viability and they're exploding our national budget," Ashley Walker, Florida Director of OFA, said in a conference call this morning (LISTEN HERE) "We're reaching out to Floridians every way we can. We're using phone calls, face to face contact, social media like FaceBook. We're using traditional media sources and also our website, mybarackobama.com

OFA's national political director, Addisu Demissie, said volunteers will be targeting Democrats, Republicans and independents alike. "We are talking to everybody, dems, repubs independs alike to get the message out that we need to get something dfone and something done this year...In Florida we are very committed to hitting the ground and using the same tactics and same strategiesthat were successful in turning Florida blue last year now to make change a reality and enact the agenda President Obama was elected to perform."

-- ADAM SMITH

Organizing for America, Barack Obama's grass roots machine, is launching a big push for health care reform in Florida and across the country. Volunteers will be reaching out to neighbors, friends, and members of congress to push for quick action on health care reform.

"Florida just simply cannot afford to delay reform for another administration or even one more year. Skyrocketing health care costs are straining family budgets, they're threatening businesses' viability and they're exploding our national budget," Ashley Walker, Florida Director of OFA, said in a conference call this morning (LISTEN HERE) "We're reaching out to Floridians every way we can. We're using phone calls, face to face contact, social media like FaceBook. We're using traditional media sources and also our website, mybarackobama.com

OFA's national political director, Addisu Demissie, said volunteers will be targeting Democrats, Republicans and independents alike. "We are talking to everybody, dems, repubs independs alike to get the message out that we need to get something dfone and something done this year...In Florida we are very committed to hitting the ground and using the same tactics and same strategiesthat were successful in turning Florida blue last year now to make change a reality and enact the agenda President Obama was elected to perform."

-- ADAM SMITH

Comments

[Alice]

All you people who can't wait to get your single payer Obama healthcare need to watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw

[Alice]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak landscape.

The administration's annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama's budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress.

The release of the update - usually scheduled for mid-July - has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.

[Alice]

ACORN is at work in Florida again for Comrade Leader Obama and we pay ACORN to work for Obama with our tax dollars as usual I am sure they will get lot's of dead people to sign up for their Comrade Leader Obama's healthcare joke on the American people.

All you people who can't wait to get your single payer Obama healthcare need to watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2jijuj1ysw

[alice]

With the public’s trust in his handling of health care tanking (50%-44% of Americans disapprove), the White House has launched a new phase of its strategy designed to pass Obamacare: all Obama, all the time. As part of that effort, Obama hosted a conference call with leftist bloggers urging them to pressure Congress to pass his health plan as soon as possible.

During the call, a blogger from Maine said he kept running into an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance. He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” (quote begins at 17:10)

This is a truly disturbing admission by the President, especially considering that later in the call, Obama promises yet again: “If you have health insurance, and you like it, and you have a doctor that you like, then you can keep it. Period.” How can Obama keep making this promise if he is not familiar with the health legislation that is being written in Congress? Details matter.

[alice]

The Mayo Clinic on Monday issued a startling rebuke to the Obama administration coming down strongly against the healthcare reform proposal offered by House Democrats last week.

In a statement posted at the Clinic's Health Policy Blog, one of the most respected medical institutions in the nation said: "[T]he proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher-quality, more affordable health care for patients. In fact, it will do the opposite."

[michael]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR7-rWhxDqQ

45 seconds... sums up my opinion on the subject.