No Going Back on Health Care - Obama

US President Barack Obama, while enforcing the health care bill through the new measures he revealed on Tuesday, stated, "We're not going back," to his opponents. Three months after the enactment of the law that aims to extend medical coverage to 32 million Americans, Obama announced the new rules which he said would "put an end to some of the worst practices in the insurance industry." Obama said that the measures, part of the phasing in of the law over several years, would offer greater consumer protection to people who might otherwise be denied or lose health coverage. "Starting in September, some of the worst abuses will be banned forever," he said. "No more discriminating against children with preexisting conditions. No more retroactively dropping somebody's policy when they get sick if they made an unintentional mistake on an application. No more lifetime limits or restrictive annual limits on coverage. Those days are over." The president told his political adversaries, including Republicans seeking to reverse the law and make health care an issue in upcoming congressional elections, that he would fight such efforts. "We're in Washington, so obviously there's politics involved," he said. "And I've got some folks on the other side of the aisle that still think none of this should happen and, in fact, have said they're going to run on a platform of repeal. They want to go back to the system we had before."