From the White House Office of Health Reform Communications Director Linda Douglass:
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The Truth About Health Care Insurance Reform
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Today’s News
Monday, July 20th, 2009Obama Demands: The Bill I Sign Must Include Public Option – “[A]ny plan I sign must include an insurance exchange: a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, cost and track records of a variety of plans – including a public option to increase competition and keep insurance companies honest – and choose what’s best for your family.”
White House Plans to Use DeMint’s “Waterloo” Quote to Rally the Troops – Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said, as Ben Smith at Politico reported, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
Orszag: Republicans Trying To Kill Health Care Reform Through Delay – “There are those that are advocating delay just as a desperation move to try and kill this.”
Subprime Brokers Resurface as Dubious Loan Fixers – FedMod is but one example of how many of the same people who dispensed risky mortgages during the real estate bubble have reconstituted themselves into a new industry focused on selling loan modifications.
Former Insurance Exec Explains How Insurance Companies Fight Against Healthcare Reform
Monday, July 13th, 2009From Bill Moyers Journal:
“With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.”
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Obama Launches Major Tool To Reset Health Care Debate
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Barack Obama’s campaign arm, Organizing for America, released on Tuesday a major new online tool designed to personalize the debate over health care reform and galvanize grassroots support for the president’s plan.
The organization, started during the 2008 election, launched a new web page that officials are describing as a “health-care story bank.” The site, officially titled “Health Care Stories for America,” allows OFA’s 13-million member list — as well as countless others — to share and find tales of individual health care struggles. Visitors can search for the stories by geography (using an online map), amplify the ones they find compelling through a voting mechanism, and describe experiences of their own. The goal, according to the site, is to illuminate a “common thread in crisis that affects us all.”
President Obama’s Father’s Day Message
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Short Video on Fatherhood:
President Obama’s Entire Father’s Day Message:
Conservative Manuel Miranda: “Hispanics not like African-Americans”, “Hispanics think just like everyone else”
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009In 2004, Manuel Miranda was forced to resign as an aide to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) when a Senate panel found that Miranda hacked into files “from folders belonging to Democratic staff.”
Now Manuel Miranda, is leading the conservative opposition to Judge Sotomayor and at a Heritage Foundation luncheon, Miranda said this:
“Hispanic polls, Hispanic surveys, indicate that Hispanics think just like everyone else. We’re not like African-Americans. We think just like everybody else. When I was on the leader’s staff, someone called me once and asked me: ‘What’s Senator Frist’s Hispanic agenda?’ I said, ‘low taxes, better education, more jobs … what are you talking about?’ And that’s how Hispanics are. This is an opportunity to educate them on all of our issues and they will resonate in the way that they resonate with everyone else.”
Sen. Patrick Leahy: On the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009From the Huffington Post:
“[Sonia Sotomayor] has been nominated by both Democratic and Republican presidents, and she was twice confirmed by the Senate with strong, bipartisan support. Her record is exemplary. Judge Sotomayor’s nomination is an historic one, and when confirmed she will become the first Hispanic Justice, and just the third woman to sit on the nation’s highest court. Having a Supreme Court that better reflects the diversity of America helps ensure that we keep faith with the words engraved in Vermont marble over the entrance of the Supreme Court: ‘Equal justice under law.’ ”
Watch President Obama’s National Security Speech Live
Thursday, May 21st, 2009[Watch]
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