By Bill Lambrecht
POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
03/10/2010 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will try to rally a skeptical public behind his health insurance overhaul in a speech in St. Charles today that may remind Missourians of Obama’s days as a hard-charging candidate.
Hoping to bring a sense of urgency to the debate, the White House is pursuing a campaign-style approach that aims broadsides at the insurance industry and warns of a rash of higher premiums.
When Obama takes the stage at St. Charles High School before about 400 people this afternoon, he is expected to skewer the industry, as he did repeatedly during a speech Monday outside Philadelphia. The president also is ratcheting up the rhetoric about what he sees as an out-of-touch Congress attuned to politics rather than the needs of Americans.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama thought people needed to be aware of plans by some health insurers for double-digit premium increases.
“The president wants to make the case again for what happens if we walk away, what happens if we start over,” Gibbs said.
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[Editor's Note: KMOX radio in St. Louis is reporting that an anti-Obamacare rally led by conservative Republican stalwart, Todd Akin, has drawn such a large crowd that two partitions in the room where the rally is being held had to be removed to accommodate the overflow crowd that is triple the size that Rep. Akin's staff had expected. Stay clicked as this developing story continues to unfold.]
~~John Cronin~~
The us government should get started doing the proper thing. A good start would be getting their noses from the health-related business. They could not really handle the work load that they have now. Just how are these people likely to make this any better?
Reinaldo,
They will make it worse….much worse. They have to be stopped before they cause a financial Panic that might lead to a Depression.