"Unfortunately, the hardest thing to do in politics - and certainly in health care reform - has been to get policymakers to make investments early that will have long-term payoffs. Because people - their attitude is, well, I'll be out of office by the time that kid grows up; and the fact that they're healthy, that doesn't help me. And in the private-sector insurance system, oftentimes insurers make the same calculation...That's the logic of our health care system that we're going to have to change."

Read the excerpt from Obama's April 29, 2009, Town Hall meeting in St. Louis:

http://www.acupuncturetoday.com/mpacms/at/article.php?id=31983