Fellow Americans,

When you elected me president, you put in my hand your security and wellbeing. As your president, I swore to uphold that. At this time in our health debate, I will exert control, total control.

I do not care if you reelect me in 2012. I will do what I know is right. If you do not like it, please vote me out in 2012. If it is the wrong thing, please reverse it when I am out of office.

But for now, for today, I am sending to congress a bill that will give all Americans health insurance. What it means is that I will provide a public option that will be available and affordable for anyone to buy into. I will require employers to provide health insurance for their workers or be fined.

Nobody in America should be allowed not to have health insurance. When you have no health insurance, you are a burden to those who have. This nation cannot afford to have millions of her citizens uninsured anymore. It is wrong, it is cruel and it is inhuman.

For those who disagree with me, I ask you to have patience. You will have the time to reshape America to your own image when I am gone.

I know there is nothing I can say here to impress many of you. I did not come here to do that. I come to remind you that I am the president of the United States today and I intend to give all Americans health insurance.

America must come into the 21st century in the area of healthcare. I intend to do that. And it starts now.

Thank you for listening and God bless the United States of America.