06/23/2009
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We are now closer to the goal of health care reform than we have ever been."
"Absolutely. I think it's the most profound decision that I have made since I have been president. And I think about it every day."
"It is not contradictory."
"President Obama picked a rural family-practice doctor to be the next surgeon general. Dr. Regina Benjamin has spent most of her career working with the poor and uninsured patients at a clinic in Alaba..."