In a town hall meeting yesterday in Portsmouth, N.H., President Obama changed the semantics, if not the strategy, of his health care agenda.
In the first of three such gatherings scheduled for this week to discuss health care, the president stressed the importance of passing “health insurance reform,” rather than health care reform, as he’d said in other speeches.
Why the change? Not sure. Maybe the recent protests and disruptive – and at times violent – nature of other town hall meetings held by federal lawmakers in their home states has tipped Obama off to the understandably strong emotions Americans have about health care. Maybe he’s seen the polling has shown that people, despite having an unfavorable view of insurance companies, largely are happy with their personal health care.
What do you think? Why did Obama shift from health care reform to health insurance reform? Does it matter? Will it work?
