The Grassroots’ Fight For Health Care

By Michael Combier-Talk Radio News Service

Organization for America is working as a relay on the local arena for President Barack Obama’s agenda on health care since he got elected last November. It is holding thousands of events across the country to push for health care reform. A press conference was held today in Washington D.C. with U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen (D-Wis.) and Dan Grandone, Organizing for America’s Wisconsin State Director.

Organization for America is a project supported by the Democratic National Committee to support President Barack Obama’s agenda for change and his will to draft a legislation for health care.

Before running for Congress in 2005, U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen (D-Wis.) was a physician. “It is tough to be a doctor and prescribe something for patients that they simply can’t afford. What good is a physician if a patient can’t afford a therapy or can’t get the tests they require?” he said.

Kagen was pleased President Obama has accepted that there should be no “discrimination due to any preexisting medical condition… Putting our best foot forward is to apply our constitutional guarantees to protect us against discrimination to our health care industry,” he said.

The U.S. has “to establish a standard health benefit plan that each and every insurance company has to offer to all the citizens,” Kagen said. “Creating a competitive market place in health care insurance industries is very critical in driving down costs for everybody.”

Grandone’s organization in Wisconsin is “going broader and deeper to the heart of all kinds of community…People are very hungry to be included in this dialogue, in this process,” Grandone said.

Obama will discuss health care reform at a town hall meeting tomorrow in Green Bay, Wis.