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- President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Iowa to celebrate the passage and signing of health care legislation. He talks about the immediate effects of health care reform on small business and families and congratulates all those that helped get the bill passed.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-03-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Representative James Cooper outlines his health care reform package to a gathering of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He outlines the similarities and differences with President Clinton's bill and asks doctors to share their savings with the health care consumers.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama talks about the Affordable Care Act, often derisively referred to as "Obamacare." Obama recounts the history of the legislation and talks about the October 1st implementation date for the insurance exchanges. He describes features that have already been implemented like preventive care, children being able to stay on parent's plans until age 26, lower costs, eliminating charges based on gender, and requiring companies to cover pre-existing conditions. Obama explains how pooling risk keeps premiums low and gives evidence of companies already lowering their rates in the new, competitive, and transparent system. He takes on critics of the ACA refuting their points and predicts that when it is successful current opponents will not only embrace it but declare they were actually in favor of it. Held at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Maryland.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vice President Joseph Biden praises the efforts of President Barack Obama to pass health care reform and introduces the President. President Obama talks about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, before signing the bill into law. He also talks about the features of the act, how citizens will benefit and how insurance company practices that will be controlled. He also thanks those that have pushed for health care reform for decades.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama announces that Director of the Office of Management and Budget Sylvia Mathews Burwell, will be his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Obama praises the efforts of resigning Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in spearheading the development and implementation of healthcare.gov and in modernizing and streamlining the United States health care system. Sebelius asserts that her department is important in helping people in their every day lives and in paving the way toward new ways to keep people healthy. Burwell thanks her office and praises their efforts to improve the government's fiscal policy and organization. She outlines her goals as Secretary of Health and Human Survices and says she looks forward to helping the American people through her new office.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden speak at the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Summit along with several economists. The group discusses the long term fiscal situation and what can be done to the budget to protect health care. President Obama describes what his administration has down in its first month in place, including the housing and financial stability plans. Obama says that the needs of health care, education, and energy innovation can no longer be ignored even as the national deficit continues to raise. Obama pledges to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term in office by creating a 10-year financial plan and assigning a overall budget management review of all federal government departments.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-02-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama answers questions posed by the Republican caucus in Baltimore, two days after his State of the Union address. Hosted by Illinois Representative Mike Pence, the caucus questions the President on unemployment, the budget deficit and health care reform. Obama calls for greater bipartisanship among members of Congress in an effort to curb needlessly quarrelsome politics.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-01-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clinton's prime time press conference on the economy and health care.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-08-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama holds a town hall meeting in Ft. Myers, Florida, to discuss the Economic Recovery Plan. President Obama talks about the effects of rising unemployment rates in the area and the struggle the state has gone through to keep taxes low. Obama then answers questions from the audience relating to education funding and state-of-the-art modifications, home mortgage assistance, health care reform, unemployment, lending mobility, and tax breaks to middle class families. In the middle of the meeting, Obama receives the announcement that the Senate passed the Recovery Plan.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama visits the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting and speaks with former President Clinton about the benefits and future of health care reform in the U.S. as well as access to quality health care around the globe. Obama urges Americans to become informed about measures designed to ensure Americans get coverage that will fit their budgets. He accuses his opponents of peddling misinformation about the Affordable Care Act, particularly in the last month. President Clinton asks Obama questions in a talk show format. Hillary Clinton introduces the men by joking about their personalities, talents, and political successes.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection