Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Obama calls for action on healthcare

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-obama-health4-2010mar04,0,2090378.story
Summary:
Today President Barack Obama stated,
"I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform." With that in mind, Obama urged Congress to vote "up or down" on the health care legislation in the next several weeks. In doing this, Obama advocated a plan that denies Senate Republicans to vote around this and have the right to kill the bill by imposing an entirely new draft of the legislation.
My Opinion:
I do agree with Obama when he states that the American population deserves an answer. After months of heated debates and much controversy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made accusations that Democrats are ignoring the voices of the people, ""They think they are smarter than the American people," he said. "They think, 'We're going to give this to you, whether you want it or not," changed my perspective on Obama's healthcare legislation completely. I, now, have mixed feelings. I have always thought why not give everyone an equal opportunity to a healthy life, but my my mother, a democrat, made a good point today. Both my mother and father work hard both work 2 jobs each so that my sisters and I receive the health care and basic necessities. With that in mind, there are people who work hard and cannot afford it but there are also people who do not deserve live off of the hard work of people like my parents. On a side note, Obama continues to reject GOP calls to start all over and will rely on budget reconciliation to to prevent and avoid a Republican filibuster. In my opinion, I feel like there is no turning back for the Democratic party. This is evident when the Senate is limiting the debate to 20 hours and in desperate needs of a decision Obama states the best ideas of both Democrats and Republicans will be put into the legislation. This article changed my perspective on our president's healthcare reformation, indeed, there needs to be a decision because as a part of the next generation health care will affect our future.

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