This was at the debate sponsored by UNLV and the SEIU during the campaigns. It is in three parts, 1 is longer than 2 and 3. Th opening remarks have new meaning since the election.


http://www.youtube.com/user/SEIU#play/s ... bJCBP_2RvI

http://www.youtube.com/user/SEIU#play/s ... tbfPOgKf2g
http://www.youtube.com/user/SEIU#play/s ... 0ER4rhpwIM


Then there is this:
Back-to-back speeches at NALEO: on Principles & Values http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/2008_NALEO_Principles_+_Values.htm

Barack Obama: ¡SĂ*, se puede! Yes, we can!
We can tear town the barriers that keep the American dream out of reach for so many Americans. We can make sure that the millions of Latinos who are uninsured get the same health care that I get as a member of Congress. We can improve our schools, recruit teachers to your communities, and make college affordable for anyone who wants to go. And we can finally start serving our brave Latino fighting men and women and all our soldiers as well as they are serving us. We can do all this. SĂ* se puede.
But I can’t do this on my own. I need your help. This election could well come down to how many Latinos turn out to vote. And I’m proud that my campaign is working hard to register more Latinos, and bring them into the political process. Because I truly believe that if we work together and fight together and stand together this fall, then you and I--together--will change this county and change this world.

Then this:On Health Care: Morally wrong that terminally ill must consider money
Q: Why is it so difficult to make health care accessible to everyone in the world's richest country?
A: It shouldn't be. And it's wrong. You know, my mother died of ovarian cancer when she was 53 years old. And I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn't thinking about how to get well, she wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence. That is morally wrong. It's objectionable. That's why I put forward a comprehensive legislation for universal health care so that all people could get coverage. My attitude is, that since you are paying my salary as taxpayers, you should have health care that is at least as good as mine. And the key to that is not only a good plan, but we've also got to overcome the drug & insurance company lobbies, that spent $1 billion over the last 10 years to block reform. As president, I am going to take them on.
Source: 2007 Democratic primary debate on Univision in Spanish Sep 9, 2007


But the Politicians refused the same healthcare they want the "people" to have. The drug companies, in my opinion, don't appear to have been "taken on", except through their deep pockets.