Barack Obama News Blog

Yesterday, hundreds of OFA volunteers and allies in North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Illinois rallied to make it clear to their members of Congress that constituents support health reform — and want their representatives to vote ‘yes’ on the President’s plan. In each state, supporters of reform chanted, marched, and held signs, vastly outnumbering opponents [...]

41. That’s the number of leading economists — including three Nobel Prize winners — who sent a letter to President Obama and Congress yesterday urging swift passage of health reform to rein in out-of-control costs. It is also the percentage of adults under age 65 who struggled with medical debt, had trouble paying medical bills, [...]

From Jeremy Bird:

The Final March for Reform is going strong — yesterday, OFA supporters made the phones ring off the hook in Congressional offices on Capitol Hill and across the country. But for every member of Congress, there are eight anti-reform lobbyists swarming Capitol Hill — and the upcoming vote is still too close to [...]

Michelle Obama Watch is headed to Mexico City. Well not exactly, First Lady Michelle Obama is traveling to Mexico and we’ll be watching from this side of the border. In April Mrs Obama is headed to Mexico City in her first official trip as a First Lady. According to the White House Press Secretary…

In recognition of the deep ties between [...]

As members of Congress ready for a vote on health reform, today they heard from 11-year-old Marcelas Owens, whose mother died in 2007 because she lacked health insurance.
Tiffany Owens suffered from pulmonary hypertension, which forced her to stop work, and in turn, she lost her medical benefits. She spent the final part of her life [...]

Speaking on health reform in Missouri yesterday, President Obama made the case for why we can’t wait any longer for reform, and he made it clear that he is pushing forward to get this done:
“We’ve seen years — decades — where Washington just puts off dealing with our toughest challenges because it’s too hard, because [...]

Today, the White House announced the third in a series of numbers that make the case for why we need health reform: 625.
That’s the number of people who lost their health insurance EVERY hour last year.
If you’re on Twitter, Organizing for America has put together a quick and easy way for you show your support [...]

From Organizing for America Director Mitch Stewart:

President Obama has called for the House to vote to move health reform forward as early as next week.
Today, across the country, supporters of President Obama are calling their representatives to thank them if they’ve been fighting for reform, and ask them to support it if they haven’t made [...]

Speaking in Missouri yesterday, President Obama talked about the misinformation on reform that he sees in the letters he reads from everyday Americans each night:
"When the health care reform debate was really heating up, one of the things that I heard from a lot of seniors was, “Keep your government hands out of my Medicare.” [...]