If you all remember during the elections, healthcare got quite a bit of air time. Every candidate was called on to offer his/her own ways to fix the healthcare crisis in the U.S., and at the time, the only ones that I thought had good solutions were the Green party and Dennis Kucinich.
Well, Obama’s gonna give healthcare a go now, he’s put together a summit in which at least 120 participants will participate in small group talk and testifying in the name of people they represent…I’m anxiously waiting to see what comes of it.
Here is his opening speech at the summit:
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