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...millions of households - but mainly ones with poor, elderly or handicapped people living in them, so sponsors won't care that much - will suddenly not be able to watch...
...that, Obama is also relying on many of the high-tech grass-roots organizing techniques that worked so well for his presidential campaign. Last weekend the Organizing for America operation that was spun off from his campaign organization held health-care-reform house parties around the country. On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee launched a new website that it calls the Health Care Action Center. It has tools to help supporters to organize and to share their personal health-care stories, as well as to write letters to editors and contact congressional representatives...
...course, the inconvenient difference between campaigning and governing is that the latter requires actual choices and compromise. In the case of health-care reform, Obama at some point will have to deal not only with conservative opposition but also with the expectations of his liberal base. Already, supporters of single-payer health care - a government-financed system similar to that of Canada or Britain - are complaining that they have been shut out of the conversation. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...What is different from previous health-care-reform efforts (like Bill Clinton's) has been Obama's skill - so far - at keeping potential adversaries at the table. But at a certain point, the President won't be able to remain so (deliberately) vague about what he wants to see in the final product, and the details of the plan will very much determine whether potential opponents will support him in the end. Nowhere is that clearer than on the controversial question of whether the health-care-reform scheme will include a "public option," which would give people the choice...
...which is the nation's leading physicians organization, is not the political force that it once was, but its opposition could nonetheless complicate the push for overall reform. So as much as Obama is trying to stay with broad campaign themes emphasizing the larger need for health-care reform, he's also going to have to spell out more clearly where he stands on some of its tougher questions. In fact, that kind of reckoning may come as early as Monday, when he reaches the next stop on his health-care campaign trail - a speech at the AMA's 158th...