President Barack Obama is continuing to push ahead in his bid to get his health care reforms passed, but he is facing stiffer opposition every day. On Wednesday evening he will host a town hall meeting to discuss the issue in the rural community of Bristol, Virginia, the same town where he kicked off his 2008 campaign after beating out Hilary Rodham Clinton for Democratic nomination.

This time however he might not get such a warm welcome. Employees at a Kroger grocery store, one of the places he is scheduled to visit, are not sure about his health care reform plans. Talking to dozens of gathered reporters, clerk Phil Younce said he felt health reform plans were being rushed and mistakes were inevitable, just like the flawed stimulus package that passed amid much controversy earlier this year.

And store manager Steve Shipplett, a longtime Obama supporter, unlike Younce who voted for Sen. John McCain, is concerned about what the proposed reforms will mean for people like Younce and himself who already have generous health insurance packages provided by their employer. It is his concern that these policies will be taxed to fund coverage for the uninsured.

But he is still willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt. He said that if the President can step up at the town hall meeting and show him solid plans that were for the benefit of all he would be willing to do his share too. “We’ve got to do something and if it means me paying taxes to get a good reform plan through I would begrudgingly do it, yes. I just hope we can come up with a plan that is worth paying for”

Back on Capitol Hill it seems that little progress is being made. After talking for six hours House democratic leaders, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and the fiscally conservative “Blue Dog” democrats went home on Tuesday at night without any kind of deal on the table.

It seems that many lawmakers from both parties share the Kroger clerk’s concerns. When asked for his opinion of the bill slowly taking shape in the Senate one liberal member of the House, George Miller, told the Washington press corps “ I don’t think it adds up to health care reform. I don’t think it adds up to insurance reform. It does not add up to keeping costs down. I don’t know what the hell it adds up to.”

But Obama keeps pushing on, in the hope that he can convince everybody, Republicans, Democrats and Kroger employees alike that he can keep his election promises and pass a bill that truly reforms health care in the United States.