Democrats In Charge, Baby!

So this week's editorial spoke about how President Obama's recent Health Care Summit was a chance to create a bipartisanship plan to fix our fragmented heath care system. This article reviewed the meeting and spoke about how the republicans pretty much blew their chance to have any say in the matter at all. When asked to compromise, the republicans refused to negotiate at all so you know what? Their loss! Everyone knew that the loss of sixty Democratic senatorial votes was a set back but now the Democratic senators can pass the Health Care Bill through reconciliation. Don't know what reconciliation is? It is the passing of a bill as is with fifty-one senatorial votes. We have fifty-nine so the odds are in our favor. This editorial also commented that this is "the one shot we have for centuries to come, to finally ensure health coverage for Americans". The author also commented on how this giant leap forward would not only provide coverage for thirty million uninsured Americans but also help reduce the deficit over time. Either way, all of this power is now in vested in the Democrats' hands to push this bill through once and for all. The author also remained strongly in favor of finally passing the Health Care Bill.

I agree with the author of this editorial because it is absolutely ridiculous how one of the richest nations in the world, America, cannot provide affordable health care for it's citizens. I watched some of the Health Care Summit and couldn't help but become so angered at the way the republicans carried themselves. Obama was being serious in trying to establish a compromise, and the nonchalant attitude and utter rudeness the republicans showed at times must have been aggravating. They brought up points that had nothing to do with the actual bill itself but focused on criticizing everything from length of the bill to just criticizing Obama himself. After that meeting Obama was pretty angry himself. I know I would be! Again, it was Obama reaching out and the republicans were not reaching back. Like the author had said, they now lost their chance to have a say in the matter because the Democrats will pass the bill through reconciliation. The benefits that the author spoke about seems that the pros outweigh the cons. The most prominent overarching goal would be providing for those who do not have enough for health care coverage. All in all, I have full faith in what is to come if the Health Care Bill in fact passes.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/opinion/04thu1.html