An Election, a Budget, and Two Summits = A Bold Obama Strategy for Health Care Change.

huffingtonpost.com — Like most participants in President Obama's Health Care Summit last Thursday, I was thrilled to be invited to the White House for the big public meeting on health care. At the Summit, the President did what the leaders and activists of the 800 organizations in our Health Care for America Now coalition have been urging: he announced his determination to reform the country's health care system -- to cover everyone and to control health costs -- in this first year of his presidency.