The president talked up investing in the primary-care workforce, so that nurses more quickly move from the classroom to the exam room. He talked up improvements under the new health care law, like $250 rebates for the elderly reaching a gap in Medicare drug benefits. And he urged states to start their own high-risk pools and begin enrolling participants.

“Nurses have been a force of will and common decency,” he told the 600 delegates and 400 guests at the meeting in the Hilton Washington ballroom. “They have paved the way for better care and a more compassionate society.

Source: Politico

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Olympia Snowe was the only Republican to vote yes on senate health care bill

The vote moves President Barack Obama’s goal of overhauling the nation’s health care system one step closer to reality.

The bill would require all Americans to own health insurance or pay a fine of up to $1,500 per family. It doesn’t require employers to offer health coverage – as the House version of the bill does – and would create health-care co-operatives for purchasing insurance, not the publicly run health insurance option many liberals hoped for.

Sarah Palin writes WSJ Op Ed on Obama Care

Tues September 8, 2009, Sarah Palin wrote an op ed piece for the Wall Street Journal called Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care. The president’s proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers.

Palin said, “Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans “talk with one another, and not over one another” as our health-care debate moves forward. I couldn’t agree more. Let’s engage the other side’s arguments, and let’s allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats’ health-care proposals should become governing law.”

She states that some 45 years ago Ronald Reagan said that “no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds.” Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us. Read full story.

Palin calls Obama health plan evil

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama’s health plan “downright evil” Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans.

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care,” the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.

“Such a system is downright evil,” Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.

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