Liberals to President Obama: Keep it together [View all]

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President Barack Obama never had the right wing on health care, has potentially lost the middle and with his attempted administrative fix is now in danger of losing the left.

Daily Kos launched a petition to urge Obama to stop apologizing for people losing their health care plans. Liberal MSNBC host Ed Schultz said Obama needs just to hold the line. And Howard Dean said the White House should just enlist Organizing for Action — the president’s political arm — to call every person who has lost their insurance plan due to Obamacare changes

It’s all part of the growing liberal angst about Obama’s health care rollout. The failure of HealthCare.gov to launch was one thing, but Obama’s move Thursday to allow people to keep substandard insurance policies is, for many of them, a bridge too far. They want Obama to make sure the law isn’t killed piece by piece and don’t like the idea of giving the health insurance industry more power than it already has.

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“If it had been up to me, I am not certain I would have made this decision, but the president felt it was important to do,” Harkin said in a statement. “My hope, however, is that everyone who has received a cancellation notice will fully and carefully consider their options. In the vast majority of cases, they will find that the coverage that they were paying good money for is not worth the paper it was printed on.”

Anna Galland, the executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action, said her members don’t want to see Obama accede to demands that he weaken the health care law in order to satisfy congressional critics.




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