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Obama Makes A Show - his activities since Nov. 5th, 08 part 1

Obama Makes A Show - Part 1


Sharon,

Last week, we asked you to lend your much-needed caregiver expertise to a growing healthcare discussion at Change.gov, the Obama transition team's website.

Since that time, over 6,500 comments have been left - and just the other day, the transition team's health policy team leader, former Senator Tom Daschle (a big fan of your Prescriptions for Change from August - see the picture on the right!) directly responded to these comments via a web video.
Click here to watch his video.
It's one of the first promising signs of a truly open government that listens to its citizens. But more than that, the level of input from the community shows just how willing and dedicated we are to making real changes in our healthcare system. You should be proud that you took part in this opportunity.

The discussion is far from over, however. If you've yet to add your critical caregiver perspective, please do so by heading here: http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healt...

Thanks,

L. Toni Lewis, MD
Lead Advocate
Healthcare United

PS - When you leave your comment, don't forget to let people know what you do for a living. They need to know nurses, doctors, and health care workers are leading the way in this movement! Click here: http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/join_the_discussion_daschles_healt....

Inside the Transition: Economy

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 07:56am EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
Last week, President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden introduced the nation to the team they've chosen to help guide us out of the economic crisis.

Our cameras were there as the news developed, and we asked Brian Deese, a member of the Transition's Economic Policy Team, to give us a behind-the-scenes look at the process.

We interviewed Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee -- both of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board -- and Peter Orszag, Director-designate of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to hear how they plan to approach the challenges and opportunities ahead of us.

Watch the video below.




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American Moment: Fixing our health care system

Thursday, December 4, 2008 03:28pm EST / Posted by Kate Albright-Hanna
Since we launched our website, thousands of people have joined the discussion about health care – as well as submitted their stories directly to American Moment. We wanted to share some of those stories in this post.

S.D. from Delaware writes:

“Like [President-elect Obama’s mother], my mother died from cancer about four years ago… During her illness, the only healthcare coverage my mother had was Medicare, which offered a 5% discount on prescription drugs. I (being employed by a pharmaceutical company) was aware of the Patient Assist Programs, which provide free medication for patients demonstrating a need, and I was certain my mother would qualify… About six months into her receiving these meds, they stopped coming. On contacting the company to ask why, they stated that patients usually do not live this long, therefore, they had terminated her application. I would like you to imagine the potentially devastating effects of this decision. My mother had bone cancer, which is known to be extremely painful, and the pharmaceutical company arbitrarily decides to stop shipping her medication because they assumed she should have died.”
We’ve also heard from a lot of doctors and nurses who offer their unique perspectives. A neonatologist who treats premature infants in Pennsylvania writes, “We are getting better and better in saving very fragile infants that are increasingly being discharged home to non-existent or deficient services.”

She’s concerned about the curtailment of services for special needs children and hopes the new administration will be able to provide access to care for “ALL children regardless of the parents’ income.”

The strains on the current system are leading a lot of young people to question whether they can truly afford to pursue a career in health care. K.J. is in her second year of medical school in South Carolina.

“I'd like to go into primary care to help out with the shortage, but I’m worried about how that will affect my ability to pay back loans (already approaching $100,000) and to raise a family, considering the long number of hours spent seeing way too many patients in order to keep the practice afloat financially, as well as more hours spent on paperwork in navigating insurance and Medicare/Medicaid. I have no idea what the solutions will be, but I think heading the voices of organizations like the American Medical Association will help.”
Keep sending your stories and ideas our way. We have a lot to learn from you.

A. A. from West Virginia makes a good point when she quotes Albert Einstein: “We cannot solve the problems that we have created with the same thinking that created them.”


Inside the Transition: Health Care

Thursday, December 4, 2008 02:36pm EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
Since we opened up our discussion on health care a week ago, thousands of people have shared their stories, experiences, and ideas -- best of all, people have responded to one another, taking the conversation in new and interesting directions.

It's exactly the kind of participation we were hoping for, and that we're counting on. It's what the Transition is all about.

The interest in the subject is clearly intense, so we sat in on a meeting of the Transition's Health Policy Team to introduce you to some of the team's members and give you a feel for how they make decisions.

Senator Tom Daschle, the leader of the Health Policy Team, sat down to tell us how he plans to tackle health care and his future plans for opening up the process further.

Watch the video below.


Join the Discussion: Economy

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 07:11pm EST / Posted by Dan McSwain
In the midst of a global financial crisis and rising unemployment, President-elect Obama has assembled a team of seasoned economic experts with records of innovation to get our country back on track.

The task ahead for the team is daunting. In order to craft solutions to these complex problems, they'll have to reach out past Washington and Wall Street for answers.

It will take all of us working together to fix our broken economy, and we want your voice to be part of that process.

We asked Director of the Council of Economic Advisors Christina Romer to kick off the conversation about the economic pressures that Americans are facing every day in their lives.

Join the open discussion and share your thoughts here.

If you want a look at similar discussions we've already hosted on Change.gov, click here.


Building the community: A guide to comments

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 05:04pm EST / Posted by Dan McSwain
The conversations among the online community on Change.gov serve two valuable ends, both of which will play a vital role for the incoming Obama-Biden Administration.

Each discussion between the Transition team and readers provides rich insight into the issues and priorities Americans care passionately about.

In addition, these discussions also allow our team to provide a unique look into the work we do everyday and help make our jobs on the Transition as transparent and open as possible.

These online conversations are truly groundbreaking -- no other transition team has ever opened these types of channels of communication with the American people. We're proud of what we've accomplished so far, and look forward to building this dialogue.

We've read through the thousands of comments posted on Change.gov, and are excited by the volume of participation. To help make our discussions clearer and more valuable, we've put together some tips:

1: Know the comment policy
Our comment policy lays out the basic guidelines for material that should and should not be part of the Change.gov online conversation.

A diverse group of commenters with a variety of opinions post their thoughts on these pages. We won't censor any ideas based on their content as long as the comment is respectful and adds value to the discussion.

2: Set up an account
Setting up an account before you comment helps build a sense of community around these discussions. You can post a comment without an account, but creating your own log in name makes it easier to keep a conversation going with others.

3: Rate other comments
Only after you've set up an account can you take advantage of our dicussion tool's most interactive qualities. We encourage folks to leave their thoughts about other comments -- either by using the thumbs up/thumbs down buttons to rate a comment, or by responding to a particular comment with your own thoughts. This will help keep the liveliest discussions in front of new readers, and will make the community's feedback a valuable part of the conversation.


4: Post a comment
Once you've got something to say, let us know. If you’re responding to the question posed by the post itself, enter your comment in the text field at the top of the discussion. If you want to respond directly to another user, click "Post Reply" at the bottom of that particular comment.

5: Stay on topic
And most importantly, a reminder: on this website, we will submit many important issues and questions for public discussion. When we open a discussion on, say, the economy, it benefits everyone in the community if you comment only on that particular topic.



With our goal of transparency in mind, we turn the question to you:

Tell us about the discussions you would like to have on Change.gov -- use the tool below to share your thoughts.

Disclaimer: Comments on this topic are powered by IntenseDebate, a third party service. Here is their privacy policy. Have feedback on this commenting system or want to suggest a better way to do this? Let us know.


Wednesday, December 3, 2008 03:14pm EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
Gov. Bill Richardson as Commerce Secretary-designate (Update 2: Video)

President-elect Barack Obama announced he has asked Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico to join his administration as Secretary of Commerce.

"With his breadth and depth of experience in public life, Governor Richardson is uniquely suited for this role as a leading economic diplomat for America," President-elect Obama said at the Chicago press conference announcing the appointment. He added later, "In the end, Bill Richardson is a leader who shares my values...I know that [he] will be an unyielding advocate for American business and American jobs, at home and around the world."

Read President-elect Obama's full remarks and see pictures and video from the press conference below.



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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:33am EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
President-elect Obama and governors tackle the economy (Update: Video)

Speaking to an assembly of nearly all of the nation's governors in Philadelphia on Tuesday, President-elect Obama called for innovation and collaboration, and invited dissenting opinions on how best to fix the economy.

"To solve this crisis and to ease the burden on our states, we're going to need action, and we're going to need action swiftly," he said. "[I]f we're listening to the governors, then the money that we spend is going to be well-spent. And it means that it's going to get working faster, and the people in your states are going to experience prosperity sooner."

Governors and governors-elect from nearly every state attended. President-elect Obama quoted Justice Louis Brandeis, who said "a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory," and encouraged Democratic and Republican governors alike to seek creative solutions.

"We are not going to be hampered by ideology in trying to get this country back on track," he said. "We want to figure out what works."

Before the meeting began, President-elect Obama walked across the street to greet some schoolchildren who had assembled there. Watch video of his remarks to the meeting and see pictures from the event below.


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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 09:18am EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
Press conference in Chicago today

President-elect Barack Obama is in Chicago today and will speak to the press at 10:40 a.m. CT.

We'll have pictures and video shortly after the event.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 07:56am EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
Inside the Transition: Economy

Last week, President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden introduced the nation to the team they've chosen to help guide us out of the economic crisis.

Our cameras were there as the news developed, and we asked Brian Deese, a member of the Transition's Economic Policy Team, to give us a behind-the-scenes look at the process.

We interviewed Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee -- both of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board -- and Peter Orszag, Director-designate of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to hear how they plan to approach the challenges and opportunities ahead of us.

Watch the video below:

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 12:18pm EST / Posted by Dan McSwain
Join the Discussion: Former Sen. Daschle responds on health care

More than 3,500 reader comments later, we’re excited to report on the success of our recent community discussion on health care, the first open conversation of its kind on Change.gov.

Members of our Health care Transition team, including former Senator Tom Daschle, were eager to dig in to the comments and find out more about the issues and concerns that drove the community conversation online.

Here's a look at what they had to say:



Like Sen. Daschle points out in the video, the whole Change.gov team is focused on providing a clear and transparent look at the Transition operation.

The wealth of information that came out of the health care discussion is a valuable resource -- not just for our team, but for anyone interested in learning more about some of the most pressing issues we face.

We thought it might be interesting to step back and look at the most common words from this bustling conversation. Here's what we found:


This "word cloud" shows the 100 most commonly used words in the healthcare discussion, arranged by size according to their frequency (using Wordle). It's just one way to summarize the information you provided.

As we continue to cultivate an open conversation with our online community, we'll be taking steps to facilitate these discussions in new and innovative ways.

We want to hear your voice. Use the discussion tool below to let us know what you liked about the health care discussion, and suggest ways to keep the conversation going in the future.

One reminder: Focus your comments on the topic at-hand – it makes the discussion much more engaging for everyone. There will be more opportunities to discuss other important issues in the future. If you have questions about your content, check out our official comment policy here.


Tuesday, December 2, 2008 09:18am EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
Teaming up to fix the economy

The President-elect, Vice President-elect, and over 40 governors are in Philadelphia this morning to talk about how best to work together and get the economy going again.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, chair of the National Governors' Association (NGA), said the states and the federal government need to drive job creation together -- with projects ranging from repairing highways and expanding public transit to building drinking water facilities. On the agenda today? Which of those projects are ready-to-go and can put people to work right away.

With many states buckling under budget deficits that could “go as high as $200 billion" in total, "We do need federal help,” Rendell said.

But Jim Douglas, the Republican governor of Vermont and vice chair of the NGA, was careful to point out that it's going to be a collaborative effort.

"States are not just coming to Washington with our hands out," he said. "We're taking action at the state level to reduce our levels of spending and live within our means."

We'll have more from this event, including photos, later in the day.


Monday, December 1, 2008 06:35pm EST / Posted by Jesse Lee
Toward a 21st century government

President-elect Obama has championed the creation of a more open, transparent, and participatory government. To that end, Change.gov adopted a new copyright policy this weekend. In an effort to create a vibrant and open public conversation about the Obama-Biden Transition Project, all website content now falls under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License:

“Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Content includes all materials posted by the Obama-Biden Transition project. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Change.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.”
Copyright Professor and blogger James Grimmelmann explains what this means:

“Talk about doing the right thing. Now the collaborative power of Change.gov isn’t limited by what the transition team itself is able to enable. Anyone can take the policy points and discussions from the site and create their own remix or branch of it. This is a very good sign of the transition team’s attitude towards their task. It’s also a good license choice. Attribution 3.0 is the Barack Obama of CC licenses: modern, dignified, generous, and tolerant.”
Professor Lawrence Lessig also commented on his blog, noting the complexity of working through such issues: “This is great news about a subject that's harder than it seems.”

Change.gov has incorporated additional features designed to make the Transition more accessible and its content more open and re-useable. For every video posted – from the weekly addresses, to press conferences, to speeches, to “Inside the Transition” pieces – there are links to high-resolution QuickTime video files beneath embedded videos (these are also available via the Transition’s podcast), so that the video can be saved to a computer and edited at will. The Obama-Biden Transition Team is continuing to explore ways to use new media to create a more transparent Transition. This is part of an ongoing planning process to create a 21st century government that is more transparent, participatory, and effective.

Monday, December 1, 2008 03:04pm EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
President-elect Obama commemorates 20th Annual World AIDS Day

We've come a long way from the "ignorance and fear" that once defined the world's reaction to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, President-elect Obama says in a video message and statement released today to mark the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. But he also points out that we still have a long way to go to defeat HIV/AIDS, both here in the United States and globally.

"[I]n the end this epidemic can’t be stopped by government alone, and money alone is not the answer either," he said. "All of us must do our part."

Watch the video and read the official statement from the Obama-Biden Transition Team below.


Monday, December 1, 2008 01:58pm EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
The National Security Team

With today's introduction of key members of the National Security Team, President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden have now chosen nearly half of the cabinet, including the heads of the departments of State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice.

Nominees announced today include Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Eric Holder as Attorney General, Governor Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Susan Rice as Ambassador to the United Nations, and General Jim Jones, USMC (Ret) as National Security Adviser. President-elect Obama also announced that he has asked Robert Gates to stay on as Secretary of Defense.

Opinion leaders from across the ideological spectrum have praised the cabinet that is taking shape.

"In selecting nominees for his Cabinet and a new White House staff, President-elect Barack Obama has so far placed an admirable emphasis on proven competence over personal loyalty or political purity," the Washington Post editorial board wrote last week.

View the video and pictures from today's press conference and read President-elect Obama's prepared remarks below.

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Friday, November 28, 2008 04:12pm EST / Posted by Dan McSwain
American Stories: Giving back to your community

Over this holiday week, many Americans have taken the time to reflect upon the role of service in their communities.

One theme runs throughout the stories and suggestions that were submitted: folks are fired up to take part in President-elect Obama's plans to increase and improve service opportunities across the country.

Kari from California wrote in to tell us about her service to education. She said:

"I've been serving my community as a high school teacher and director of a program for low-income, first-generation college-going high school students for seven years now. I believe in Barack Obama's mission of hope and change and a better country."
President-elect Obama has repeatedly said that his Administration will call on all Americans to serve others. Joan from Ohio wrote in to say that she is "thrilled to have our government ask me to do something." She said:

"At the most basic level, I think the world cannot evolve without individuals shouldering responsibility for change -- preferably united under strong leadership from government.

I'm a former human resources manager and communications consultant. I have volunteered tutoring in schools. I have worked on rebuilding projects in New Orleans. I have been a case worker and volunteer coordinator with the Red Cross. And I have worked with VITA (Volunteers in Tax Assistance) doing tax returns for low income and elderly folks. In other words: I'm not entirely picky about my service jobs."
Several seasoned volunteers offered stories from their own experience that included valuable advice for others interested in service. Suzannah from North Carolina wrote:

"I have spent over 30 years in human services and volunteered many hours in various projects. I think that there should be inter-agency collaboratives with a shared vision -- that there should be a search for best practices in volunteerism and a gold standard set. There should be ongoing assessment, and non-profit administrators should be given increased salaries, as should teachers. Examples of inter-agency collaboration could include, for instance: early intervention, family support, parenting classes, job training and housing."
Your stories of service help remind others of the big role ordinary Americans must play in creating the change we need for our country. Keep sending us stories about your service experiences here.

Thursday, November 27, 2008 02:09am EST / Posted by Dan McSwain
Special preview of the President-elect’s Thanksgiving address

Today, American families are gathered to give thanks for the many blessings in their lives.

In a preview of his weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama urges Americans to acknowledge the blessings we all share over this Thanksgiving holiday.

While our nation is faced with tough economic times, President-elect Obama recognizes the value of service in rebuilding struggling communities across the country.

This Thanksgiving, President-elect Obama has asked the nation to celebrate this distinctly American tradition while looking forward to the future we share with hope and promise.

Watch the President-elect's Address now -- then send us your stories about the ways you or others you know serve your community:

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 06:58pm EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
An Economic Team for “Bold, Clear, Decisive Steps”

Every day this week, President-elect Barack Obama has introduced new members of his economic team. Today it was Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee, who will lead the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Asked if the flurry of public activity was a response to the current Administration's handling of the current crisis, President-elect Obama said that his focus on the economy was about something much broader.

"No, I think what it speaks to is the frustration of eight years in which middle class wages have gone down, or in real terms their family incomes have been reduced," he said. "It expresses frustration about our inability to tackle some of the long term problems that we've been facing and have been talking about for decades, whether it's health care, energy, an education system that's been slipping behind in critical areas like math or science. And most of all, I think frustration with the incapacity of Washington to take bold, clear, decisive steps to deal with our economic problems."

For years President-elect Obama has fought not only for an overhaul of the regulations that govern Wall Street -- as his economic agenda states, "Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that our deep systemic financial market crisis requires a systemic response" -- but for bold action in nearly every area of public policy.

The members of the economic team he announced this week clearly reflect these key principles. Each has the experience, ability, and will to enact bold change. Below we've put together some recent statements from each member of the team to give you an idea of where they're coming from on these key issues.

Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary-designate:
"Apart from the mix of incentives and constraints set by regulatory policy, the structure of the regulatory system in the United States needs substantial reform. Our current system has evolved into a confusing mix of diffused accountability, regulatory competition, an enormously complex web of rules that create perverse incentives and leave huge opportunities for arbitrage and evasion, and creates the risk of large gaps in our knowledge and authority. This crisis gives us the opportunity to bring about fundamental change in the direction of a more streamlined and consolidated system with more clarity around responsibility for the prudential safeguards in the system."
--Speech, 6/9/08, link

Larry Summers, Director-designate of the National Economic Council:
"I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social and political system work for the middle class?... Because the system’s viability, its staying power and its health depend on how well it works for the middle class."
--New York Times, 6/10/07, link

Christina Romer, Director-designate of the President's Council of Economic Advisors:
"Poverty is arguably the most pressing economic problem of our time. And because rising inequality, for a given level of income, leads to greater poverty, the distribution of income is also a central concern."
--Economic Review, 1/1/99, link

Melody C. Barnes, Director-designate of the Domestic Policy Council:
"To restore fairness to our system, I will embark on a multi-faceted approach including increasing our investment in public education, promoting genuine health care reform, and backing a higher minimum wage... Our economic security, our national security, our health, and the future of the global environment are fundamentally linked to the choices we make about energy."
--"What a Progressive President Might Say," Op-ed, Washington Post, 1/22/07, link

Peter Orszag, Director-designate of the White House Office of Management and Budget:
"While I’m on the topic of health care, I’d like to make a point related to the current turmoil in financial markets. Many observers have noted that addressing the problems in financial markets and the risks to the economy may displace health care reform on the policy agenda… Although it may not seem immediately relevant given our current difficulties, it will be crucial to address the nation's looming fiscal gap -- which is driven primarily by rising health care costs -- as the economy eventually recovers from this current downturn."
--CBO Director's Blog, 10/13/08, link

Paul Volcker, Chair of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board:
"The new system seemed to work effectively in fair financial weather, with great confidence in its efficiency and presumed benefits. However, I believe there is no escape from the conclusion that, faced with the kind of recurrent strains and pressures typical of free financial markets, the new system has failed the test of maintaining reasonable stability and fluidity... The critical pressures on our financial markets are not unique, nor can an approach to dealing with those pressures be successful in isolation. We have a lot upon which to build, and we should not miss the opportunity to extend the areas of cooperation."
--Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, 5/14/08, link

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 05:33pm EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
President-elect Barack Obama and family volunteer at Chicago food pantry

Saying he wanted his two daughters "to learn the importance of how fortunate they are and make sure they are giving back," President-elect Obama and his family volunteered at a food pantry near their home on the South Side of Chicago this afternoon.

St. Columbanus Church, where President-elect Obama has volunteered before, feeds nearly 500 people a week. But he pointed out that times are particularly tough.

"The number of people who are getting food this year is up 33 percent," he said. "It gives a sense times are tough -- and I think that on Thanksgiving it's important for us to remember there's a need for support."

When a group of children appeared in the window of the church's school, President-elect Obama decided to visit the school's auditorium, where hundreds of the school's students quickly assembled.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 05:03pm EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
President-elect Obama names Volcker and Goolsbee to economic team

President-elect Barack Obama today announced the establishment of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board and named economists Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee to lead it.

Watch video of the press conference and read the President-elect's prepared remarks below.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 05:37pm EST / Posted by Dave Rochelson
Analysts praise choice of Orszag and Nabors

Following President-elect Barack Obama's announcement today of two more members of his economic team, analysts and congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle are calling the selections "excellent."

The Washington Post calls Peter Orszag, Director-designate of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), "widely respected for his work on how Americans receive medical care... Orszag has carved out a niche as a leading international thinker on health policy."

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) applauded the choice of Orszag. "He has proven his mettle as one of our nation's leading expers on the federal budget," Ryan was quoted as saying in MSNBC's First Read. "He and I have enjoyed a strong, productive working relationship, and I have been particularly impressed with his understanding of the looming entitlement crisis, and the critical need for action."

Orszag is "an excellent choice," Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), ranking Republican on the senate Budget Committee, said in a statement.

Rob Nabors, staff director of the House Appropriations Committee, will be Deputy Directorof OMB. Rep. David Obey (D-WI), who currently chairs the committee, praised Nabors as someone whose "demeanor is very nice and very cool.

"He understands the House, he understands the committee, he understands the town, he understands the bureaucracy," Obey said. "And he doesn’t take any crap from anybody."

Watch the full video of this afternoon's press conference, including questions and answers, below:

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 05:10pm EST / Posted by Kate Albright-Hanna
Join the Discussion

Today we're trying out a new feature on our website that will allow us get instant feedback from you about our top priorities. We also hope it will allow you to form communities around these issues -- with the best ideas and most interesting discussions floating to the top.

Today you can join the discussion with our health care team members Dr. Dora Hughes and Lauren Aronson. They want to hear what worries you most about the health care system as it currently exists.

Thanks for taking the time to weigh in and share your story. We look forward to reading your responses!

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