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The Health Care Heat is On, Pt.4 – If Obama wins…

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These meetings are all centered around health insurance/care reform. The objective is to be poised and ready to move “in the opening days of the next president's administration,” according to the article. To meet that goal, they need to formulate the outline of a viable insurance/care reform proposal by that time. One of the leaders of this organization named Richard Kirsch declares "We want to create a mandate." Many of these were members of the liberal groups that banded together to defeat Bush’s dismantling of the Social Security program in 2005. Together, they are working tirelessly to finally resolve this present health insurance/care crisis our country is in.

With the full support of Mr. Obama, there are already a host of highly respected participants working it all out. Obama has pledged to see this thing through and make health insurance/care reform central in his first-term agenda, along with two other major crises our nation is caught up in. He has already added to his noteworthy team of specialist advisors, Elizabeth Edwards of course, former Clinton White House aide Sarah Bianchi and Hillary’s policy director from the primaries Neera Tanden. Neera’s title is domestic policy adviser. Both Mrs. Edwards and Ms. Bianchi are working along with other experts engaged in health insurance/care campaign conference calls.

Mrs. Edwards is stoked. In an interview concerning the new administration’s priorities, she advised, "It's important for this to be one of the first things that's considered." She’s pushing to have health insurance/care reform on next year’s agenda.

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