Obama on the Offensive

President Obama has finally come to the aid of the Democratic congressmen and women who are going around the country advocating for the passage of the health bill. In his town hall meetings across the country he has attacked high insurance premiums; criticized the nature of insurance companies, reminding citizens that the latter care more about their profits than the well-being of the insured; reprimanded the same insurance companies for making a bureaucracy out of patients' health while themselves scaring the nation that a government-run insurance plan will do the same; addressed concerns of citizens about the funding of the healthcare program; given his listeners examples of Americans who have gone bankrupt because of unaffordable healthcare, and all the while has debunked Sarah Palin's outrageous lies and fear-mongering propaganda about the non-extant 'death panels.'

NPR coverage of one of those town hall meetings is in the audio below.