SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — President Barack Obama has hit the campaign trail again, this time stumping for immediate legislative action to reform the nation’s health care system.
President Obama will give his health care reform message to Greater Cleveland Thursday afternoon during a town hall meeting at Shaker Heights High School.
Reforming health care became an omnipresent issue during Obama’s presidential campaign last year. Soon after his inauguration, the president began pressuring Congress to act on his campaign promise to overhaul the nation’s costly and less-than-efficient system, which fails to cover about 50 million Americans with health insurance.
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Obama has convened White House meetings with health industry executives, extracting promises to lower their prices in the hope of stemming escalating health care costs. He’s met with labor leaders and consumer advocates to get the word out about his proposed health insurance exchange in which a government-sponsored plan would compete with private plans.
All along, he’s prodded congressional leaders to act quickly to provide relief for American families who can’t afford health coverage or care. He wants Senate and House legislation on his desk by Aug. 7 when Congress recesses for the summer.
Concerned that public opinion was turning against reform, Obama on Monday took the lead in the campaign, trying to convince Americans that the nation cannot afford to put off fixing health care — again. An attempt by the Bill Clinton administration to reform health care in the early 1990s failed.
But hours away from a prime-time news conference on health reform Wednesday evening, CNN released its latest poll-of-polls on the president’s handling of the reform debate. Just 47 percent of Americans polled said they approved of his reform efforts, while 44 percent said they disapproved. Over the weekend, a Republican senator commented that health care reform may become Obama’s political undoing. The president countered by criticizing the senator for putting politics before health care reform.
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While Obama is a master at setting the big-picture agenda on health care reform, he seems short on the nitty-gritty details of paying for the reform. One Democrat-led proposal to tax health care benefits provided by employers would cause Obama to break a campaign promise to avoid raising taxes on middle-class Americans.
[Photo credit: June 11, 2009, White House photo by Chuck Kennedy]
