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【正文】 ep our eyes fixed on that day, I hear from Americans who are feeling firsthand the pain of this recession。these are folks who share their stories with me in letters and at town hall meetings。folks who remain in my mind and on my agenda each and every know that there are countless families and businesses struggling to just hang on until this storm I also know that if we do the things we know we must, this storm will it will yield to a brighter day.第五篇：Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address February 20, 2010The other week, men and women across California opened up their mailboxes to find a letter from Anthem Blue news inside was was alerting almost a million of its customers that it would be raising premiums by an average of 25 percent, with about a quarter of folks likely to see their rates go up by anywhere from 35 to 39 , after their announcement stirred public outcry, Anthem agreed to delay their rate hike until May 1st while the situation is reviewed by the state of it’s not just Californians who are being hit by rate Kansas, one insurance pany raised premiums by 10 to 20 percent only after asking to raise them by 20 to 30 year, Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield raised rates by 22 percent after asking to raise them by up to 56 in Maine, Anthem is asking to raise rates for some folks by about 23 bottom line is that the status quo is good for the insurance industry and bad for the past year, as families and small business owners have struggled to pay soaring health care costs, and as millions of Americans lost their coverage, the five largest insurers made record profits of over $12 as bad as things are today, they’ll only get worse if we fail to ’ll see more and more Americans go without the coverage they ’ll see exploding premiums and outofpocket costs burn through more and more family ’ll see more and more small businesses scale back benefits, drop coverage, or close down because they can’t keep up with rising in time, we’ll see these skyrocketing health care costs bee the single largest driver of our federal ’s what the future is on track to look it’s not what the future has to look question, then, is whether we will do what it takes, all of us – Democrats and Republicans – to build a better future for ourselves, our children, and our ’s why, next week, I am inviting members of both parties to take part in a bipartisan health care meeting, and I hope they e in a spirit of good don’t want to see this meeting turn into political theater, with each side simply reciting talking points and trying to score political , I ask members of both parties to seek mon ground in an effort to solve a problem that’s been with us for ’s in that spirit that I have sought out and supported Republican ideas on reform from the very Republicans want to allow Americans to purchase insurance from a pany in another state to give people more choices and bring down Republicans have also suggested giving small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as big panies and labor unions think both of these are good ideas – so long as we pursue them in a way that protects benefits, protects patients, and protects the American hope Democrats and Republicans can e together next week around these and other members of Congress, I would simply say know the American people want us to reform our health insurance know where the broad areas of agreement we know where the sources of disagreement debating this issue exhaustively for a year, let’s move forward week is our chance to finally reform our health insurance system so it works for families and small ’s our chance to finally give Americans the peace of mind of knowing that they’ll be able to have affordable coverage when they need it ’s being tested here is not just our ability to solve this one problem, but our ability to solve any now, Americans are understandably despairing about whether partisanship and the undue influence of special interests in Washington will make it impossible for us to deal with the big challenges that face our want to see us focus not on scoring points, but on solving problems。not on the next election but on the next is what we can do, and that is what we must do when we e together for this bipartisan health care meeting next you, and have a great weekend.