For those of you not on the president’s email list, here’s your latest orders:

The chance to finally reform our nation’s health care system is here. While Congress moves rapidly to produce a detailed plan, I have made it clear that real reform must uphold three core principles — it must reduce costs, guarantee choice, and ensure quality care for every American.

As we know, challenging the status quo will not be easy. Its defenders will claim our goals are too big, that we should once again settle for half measures and empty talk. Left unanswered, these voices of doubt might yet again derail the comprehensive reform we so badly need. That’s where you come in.

When our opponents spread fear and confusion about the changes we seek, your support for these core principles will show clarity and resolve. When the lobbyists for the status quo tell Congress to hold back, your personal story will give them the courage to press forward.

Join my call: Ask Congress to pass real health care reform in 2009.

After adding your name, please consider sharing your personal story about the importance of health care reform in your life and the lives of those you love.

I will be personally reviewing many of these signatures and stories. If you speak up now, your voice will make a difference.

I will attempt to be politically correct here. I was just thinking about how moral decay was formerly viewed as a cause for the fall of nations. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine how behaviors formerly repudiated by society are leading to increased health care costs. What would be the impact of removing the toll these are taking on the healthcare scene? At what point will accelerating the proliferation of these diverse behaviors with our celebration and embrace require the nationalization of health care?

Then, there are the old arguments about government-sponsored insurance monopolies (a duopoly in NC), mandatory Cadillac care, and a right for survivors of abortion to live for 100 years. Actually, I liked what I heard about the Republican alternative, co-sponsored by Richard Burr.