Obama on health care - 12:40 AM

Health care on unsustainable course. Burden for American Businesses. Harder to compete across the world. Dropping coverage for workers at alarming rate. Cost to continue climbing with baby boomers coming online. Economy will spend 1/5 on health care within a decade. Groups that met today are from various constituencies is unprecedented. 1.5 percentage points per year to be cut. Cut waste, fraud and abuse. This is a historic day and watershed event for health care reform. Next step is for congress to act comprehensive reform. Three goals 1)lower costs 2)freedom of choice 3)promote quality care. **** I typed this as he was speaking. There is more but I couldn't keep up. That is the main points just the same.