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Obama uses constituent letter to press health execs
President Obama often mentions that he reads 10 letters each day from regular Americans, and today he used one of those letters to press health insurance executives to support reform.
The president dropped by unannounced at a meeting between Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and the nation's top health insurance executives.
He took the opportunity to pass around a letter he had received from Natoma Canfield, a 50-year old Ohio resident who has cancer and says her insurance premiums have been constantly rising.
"I need your Health reform bill to help me!!! I simply can no longer afford to pay for my health care costs!!" Canfield writes the letter, dated December 29, which the White House released to reporters. "Thanks to this incredible premium increase demanded by my insurance company, January will be my last month of insurance."
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said today that Obama will carry the letter "to meetings today and throughout this period to remind everyone what's at stake with the final push for health care reform and what's -- what happens if we walk away."
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