Video courtesy: whitehouse President Obama Talks Health Care and Challenges GOP to, "Bring It On!"
By Sophia Douglas
TheUrbanFly
March 25, 2010
President Barack Obama told crowd of about 5,000 supporters in the Field House at the University of Iowa that he wasn’t giving up on his fight to implement his recently passed health care overhaul legislation.
It was a bittersweet return to the same campus where he first kicked off his presidential campaign back in April 2007 and laid out his plan to achieve health care reform. Obama reminded Iowans, especially young college-aged supporters that they would be among the beneficiaries of the immediate health insurance reforms.
The president also voiced gratitude for the hard work of the Iowa volunteers whose grassroots efforts helped to make the decades-long struggle for universal health care a little closer to reality.
At one point, a protester in the crowd tried to interrupt several times, but the Obama let the man speak, and directly addressed his concerns. But after the last eruption, the adoring crowd drowned him out with shouts of “Yes We Can,” the anthem of the Obama campaign.
And in an apparent reference to GOP leaders who have been defiantly in their opposition, and campaigning to repeal the law, Obama seemed delighted to push back. “Go for it,” the President said with a smile.
"If these congressmen in Washington want to come here to Iowa and tell small business owners that they plan to take away their tax credits and essentially raise their taxes, be my guest."
The health care reform bill passed in the house Sunday night, with a vote of 219-212, without a single Republican vote.
Obama acknowledged the bill was "not perfect" but listed what he saw as numerous benefits such as tax breaks to help Americans buy coverage
