H.R.3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

“Praising and prodding Congress, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said a vast reform of the nation’s health insurance system is required to head off instability to families, industry and the government itself.

‘Deferring reform is nothing more than defending the status quo _ and those who would oppose our efforts should take a hard look at just what it is they’re defending,’ Obama said in the Rose Garden, pushing for landmark bills to get through the House and Senate before Congress’ August recess.

Putting more of his own political stake behind the effort each day, Obama outlined the troubles with the U.S. approach to health care coverage, with an emphasis on the cost to consumers. He spoke of soaring premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs and promised with reform, ‘You’ll save money.’”

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Obama: Health care reform essential to stability

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“President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican opposition doesn’t yield soon, two of the president’s top advisers said.

‘Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,’ David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview in his White House office. ‘If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a-wasting.’

Both Axelrod and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said taking a partisan route to enacting major health-care legislation isn’t the president’s preferred choice. Yet in separate interviews, each man left that option open.

‘We’d like to do it with the votes of members of both parties,” Axelrod said. “But the worst result would be to not get health-care reform done.’”

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Obama Open to Partisan Vote on Health-Care Overhaul, Aides Say

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“Supporters of the President’s government takeover of health care have been very careful to not mention the word abortion. They use terms like family planning and reproductive healthcare, but it is becoming harder for them to hide the fact that under a government takeover of health care, taxpayers would be forced to fund abortion for the first time in over 3 decades.”

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