Obama takes health care overhaul push to Missouri

WASHINGTON – The nation's top health official challenged insurers on Wednesday to join President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the medical system, arguing that if the effort fails it will hurt them as well as other Americans.
Obama is to speak Wednesday in suburban St. Louis and then travel to northeastern Ohio on Monday, his third health care event in a week. His speech comes as congressional Democrats stand on the brink of delivering the president a dramatic success with passage of his massive overhaul legislation — or a colossal failure if they can't get it done.
As part of the administration's campaign, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sketched out a stark choice for insurers: oppose reform and eventually lose customers, or work with the White House to improve the legislation.
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Obama says health care fraud and abuse must end
ST. CHARLES, Mo. – President Barack Obama says Washington for too long has accepted billions of dollars in health care fraud and abuse as simply the cost of doing business. He says that must end.

Obama on Wednesday said improper health payments cost taxpayers $100 billion each year — more than Washington spends on education and the Small Business Administration combined. Obama says he was sent to Washington to change that system, so earlier in the day he signed an order expanding the use of high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, a populist idea with bipartisan backing.

The president came to Missouri as the latest piece of his closing argument on his health care overhaul. He says inaction would hurt Americans.
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JEFFERSON CITY — One Missouri representative has sponsored legislation that would give Missouri residents a choice when it comes to a national health care reform bill.
Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, pre-filed a bill Dec. 1 that, if approved by voters, would effectively put a halt on any national health care legislation. Davis said her intent was to give voters a way to protect themselves.
"We (Missourians) don't like it when people try to take away our freedom," Davis said. "We will maintain the right to purchase health care however we chose. This national health care debate is not about health care as much as it is about redistribution of the wealth. This resolution allows voters to say don't redistribute our wealth here in Missouri."
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The Growing Movement to Nullify National Health Care
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