A word cloud of President Obama's health care mentions in tonight's speech.

I just finished watching Obama's address to Congress with a group of SEIU nurses. I won't name names, but some of us have tears in our eyes right now.

For us, this is a moment more than a decade in the making. When our movement started, having a president who would speak so honestly and passionately about the need to fix health care was something we dreamt about, but it was hard to imagine.

Still, we kept working, we kept growing, and we kept building a grassroots movement committed to solving this crisis. The movement we've built isn't led by lobbyists or hospital CEOs - it's powered by nurses, patients, and everyday people fed up with a broken system that allows millions of Americans fall through the cracks.

This is hardly the end, though. The goal of our movement was never to see a president talk about health care reform, it's to see him sign it into law. We cannot slow our progress; we've got to solve the health care crisis this year.

The president made it clear tonight that he's prepared to hold up his end of the bargain:

Once again, it will be hard, but I also know after a century that Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform, the cost of our health care has weighed down our economy and our conscience long enough. So, let there be no doubt, health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year.

Now it's up to us. All eyes are on health care - including those who have an interest in trying to maintain the status quo. We can expect roadblocks and attacks from our opponents; and we can expect them to be more rapid and aggressive than ever before.

On November 4th, we launched a campaign to "keep health care on the map." Thousands of people throughout the U.S. put their name on the map, and took a stand for fixing our nation's ailing health care system. Today, we must renew that call to action. Click here to join our health care movement right now: http://action.seiu.org/healthcaremap

We are the ones that, against all odds, elected a president who understands the seriousness of the health care crisis. And we will be the ones to help that president solve the health care crisis once and for all.

Take a stand with President Obama, and keep health care on the map: http://action.seiu.org/healthcaremap