In Obama's Words

Obama holds teleconference on Affordable Care Act

I wanted to have this call because we've got a big day coming up -- the six-month anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act.”

• Other issues:Government and Politics, Health Care

Obama Delivers Remarks at ORGANIZING For America's National Health Care Forum

We've got more work to do, and we've got more promises to keep, and one of those promises is to achieve quality, affordable health care for every single American, and that is what we intend to do when Congress gets back into session.”

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Obama Delivers Remarks on Health Care at N.H. Town Hall Meeting

We do think that systems like Medicare are very inefficient right now, but it has nothing to do at the moment with issues of benefits.”

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Obama's Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care

We did not come here just to clean up crises, we came to build a future. I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.”

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Obama Delivers Remarks on Health Care Reform at the American Medical Association's Annual Meeting in Chicago

To say it as plainly as I can, health care is the single most important thing we can do for America's long-term fiscal health. That is a fact.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama Delivers Remarks on Health-Care Reform at Town Hall

As we meet today, we're seeing double-digit rate increases on insurance premiums all over America.”

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Obama Holds Town Hall on Health Care

We have to ask why places like Geisinger Health Systems in rural Pennsylvania or Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City, or communities like Green Bay, can offer high-quality care at costs well below average, but other places in America can't.”

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Obama holds Tele Town Hall meeting with seniors

Case in point: Beginning this week, tens of thousands of seniors who fall into the doughnut hole, like Fran, will receive a $250 rebate check to help you cover the cost of your prescriptions.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama delivers remarks on health insurance reform

We need to give families and businesses more control over their own health insurance. And that's why we need to pass health care reform; not next year, not five years from now, not 10 years from now, but now.”

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Obama delivers remarks on health-care reform in Missouri

The American people will be more secure with this reform. Our country will be stronger because of this reform. I don't know about the politics. But I know it is the right thing to do, and that's why I'm fighting so hard to get it done.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama holds a backyard discussion on health care reform and the Patient’s Bill of Rights

I mean, one of the toughest things about this health care debate was -- and sometimes I fault myself for not having been able to make the case more clearly to the country -- we spend, each of us who have health insurance, spend about a thousand dollars of our premiums on somebody else's care.”

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Obama meets with Des Moines family

All right, we're going way afield now. I mean, the -- so let me focus on your question...”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama speaks at House Republican retreat in Baltimore

Now, I understand some of you had some philosophical differences, perhaps, on just the concept of government spending, but as I recall, opposition was declared before we had a chance to actually meet and exchange ideas. And I saw that as a missed opportunity.”

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Obama Obama urges Congress to 'finish its work' on reform bill

Democrats and Republicans agree that this is a serious problem for America. And we agree that if we do nothing – if we throw up our hands and walk away – it’s a problem that will only grow worse.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama Holds Press Conference: Opens with Discussion on Health-Care, Iranian Elections and Energy Policy

I've made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is not interfering with Iran's affairs.”

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Obama Taps Gov. Kathleen Sebelus (D-Kan.) to Lead HHS

Kathleen Sebelius embodies such a commitment to bipartisan accomplishment.”

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Obama holds health-care rally in Fairfax, Va.

Every decade since, we've had Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon to JFK to Lyndon Johnson to -- every single President has said we need to fix this system.”

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Obama delivers remarks on the economy in Columbis, Ohio

What we've tried to do whenever we are in a setting like this is to talk about the things that folks are going through day to day, because, look, I'll be honest with you, sometimes when you're in Washington you get caught up with the particular legislative battles or, you know, the media spin on certain issues, and sometimes you lose touch in terms of what folks are talking about around the kitchen table.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama Delivers Remarks on Health Care Costs

Rising health care costs are commanding more and more of the money that our companies could be using to innovate and to grow, making it harder for them to compete around the world.”

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Obama Announces Surgeon General Nominee

Over the last several weeks, key committees in the House and the Senate have made important and unprecedented progress on a plan that will lower costs, provide better care for patients, and curb the worst practices of the insurance companies.”

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