Posted on 12/24/2009 11:15:16 AM PST by cycle of discernment
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: President Barack Obama Date: Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM Subject: A historic moment To: Don xxxxx
Don --
Although it's Christmas Eve, I wanted to share some exciting news: The Senate just passed a historic health reform bill.
In all the back and forth, it's easy to lose sight of what this incredible breakthrough really means. But consider this: This Christmas, there are millions of Americans without health insurance who risk losing everything if they get sick.
There are mothers and fathers who wonder how they'll provide for their children because an illness has wiped out their savings. There are small business owners who worry that they'll have to lay off a long-time employee because the cost of insurance is rapidly rising.
If we finish the job, all this can change. We will have beaten back the special interests who have for so long perpetuated the status quo. We will have enacted the most important piece of social policy since the Social Security Act in the 1930s, and the most important health reform since Medicare in the 1960s.
In Decembers to come, millions more will have access to affordable coverage. Parents will have the security and stability of knowing their insurance can't be revoked at a moment's notice. And the skyrocketing costs plaguing our small businesses will be brought under control.
When you make calls, write letters, organize, this is the change you're making -- a better life for your family and for men and women in every state.
There is still more to do before I can sign reform into law -- a last round of negotiations and final votes in the Senate and the House -- and I'm counting on your help every step of the way. But for now, I hope that as you celebrate this holiday season, you remember that the work you are doing is making our union more perfect, one step at a time. For that, I am grateful to you.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays,
President Barack Obama
P.S. -- Organizing for America supporters are signing a note of appreciation to all the senators who have worked so hard to make this possible. I hope you'll join them:
http://my.barackobama.com/SenateLetter
Millions of children without health insureance?
what happened to sChip? !!
DEMOCRATS are screwjed....
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My medical program will kill 'em anyway.
Merry Christmas.
And just as financially unsound.
This is the same politician who didn’t believe that children who survived abortion attempts and were born alive were worthy of compassion, healthcare, or life.
And guess what. There are still millions of people without insurance. And millions more without basic necessities like homes, cars, computers, high speed and wireless Internet access, cable TV, cell phones, cheese, wine & French bread. I won’t rest until I get ALL of life’s basic necessities that you are all constitutionally guaranteed as RIGHTS and entitlements for FREE!! Including free lunch and fria cerveza for ALL!!
We are constitutionally guaranteed equality, happiness and welfare!! And I won’t rest until we get it!!
Be good y’all. There’s a new Santa Clause in town.
This is going to be a better life for our families and for men and women in every state. FOR WHOM WILL ANYTHING BE BETTER?
Insurance can’t be revoked at a moment’s notice. Any bets they put in some extra fine fine print about smokers or meat eaters??.
Is that from the Island of Lost Toys?
Yep, the Island of Misfit Toys. Misfits all, just like most of ‘em in DC.
What about other high risk lifestyles that are on the ‘don’t you dare mention’ list?
Like gay sex practices that wear and tear on particular features of human anatomy— “features” designed for an otherwise distinctly different purpose...and activities perpetuated upon them that transfer like wildfire, insidious disease, tissue breakdown requiring surgical reconstruction and even promote precancerous conditions and very likely through typical repeated abuse, actual cancer.
Sounds like insurance riders might should be invoked here, eh?
However, we won’t hold our breath....
Agree makes one wonder just how many hacks in D.C. are gay,soneone needs to show a list.
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