Details, but this time with a human face:
“Let me be specific. We will stop insurance companies from denying you coverage because of your medical history. I've told this story before -- I will never forget watching my own mother, as she fought cancer in her final days, worrying about whether her insurer would claim her illness was a preexisting condition so they could wiggle out of paying for her coverage. How many of you have worried about the same thing? A lot of people have gone through this. Many of you have been denied insurance or heard of someone who was denied insurance because they got -- had a preexisting condition. That will no longer be allowed with reform. We won't allow that. We won't allow that.
“With reform, insurance companies will have to abide by a yearly cap on how much you can be charged for your out-of-pocket expenses. No one in America should go broke because of an illness.
“We will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies, eye and foot exams for diabetics, so we can avoid chronic illnesses that cost not only lives, but money.”
“I will not sign a health care bill that is not deficit neutral, that is not paid for. I will not sign a bill that does not have all the reforms that we need to lower health care inflation over the long term. We will not sign a bill that isn’t right for the American people, and I’m for the public option. So I just want everybody to know, Congress will have time to read the bill. They will have time to debate the bill. They will have all of August to review the various legislative proposals. When we come back in September, I will be available to answer any question that members of Congress ask. If they want to come over to the White House and go over line by line what’s going on, I will be happy to do that. We are not trying to hide the ball here. We’re trying to get this done. But the American people can’t wait any longer. They want action this year. I want action this year. And with your help we’re going to make it happen...”
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He needs to keep telling people what they need to hear and not what his aides think they want to hear. He has got to stay on message, the opposition is bang on its message, put fear into about 20 million people and let them make all the noise. Let them disrupt all the town hall meetings, let them put pressure on the democratic politicians
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