Reply #13: Actually its up to everyone to fight for a good bill. [View All]

If it was just "up to congress" then he wouldn't be about campaigning as hard as he is. The problem is, how he's campaigning is ineffective. He needs to tell the American people specifically what health care reform looks like to him, what kind of a bill he would and wouldn't support - and he needs to go beyond vagueness like "it must keep costs down."

It's precisely his hands off attitude, leaving it all to congress, refusing to layout a framework of specifics that the President say were must haves for signing - its that vagueness that has opened the door to all of the speculative bullshit that is bringing down the health care debate.

One of the biggest problems with the health care reform fight right now is that Obama isn't leading. This whole let Congress sort it out thing isn't working and is nothing more than an overcompensation for the mistakes of 1993-94. Obama is undercutting his own effectiveness even while working very, very hard to be on the campaign trail for healthcare, by never using any of those opportunties to nail down specifics in the public's mind of what Obama signed legislation on health care must look like.... because he won't do that, the idiots have filled that vaccum with their own nonesense, and people are much more likely to believe it - because no ones given them anything specific about what "Obama's health plan" looks like. That's because there currently IS NO PLAN, thanks to the white house's wait-and-see approach to health care.