President Obama's recent national address on healthcare seems to have done little to calm the debate on health care that has been going strong since before the presidential election. Since the unveiling of the new health care proposal, the reform has gained even more opposition. Where as before the biggest opponents of Obama's attempt at reform were Republican, the newest plan endorsed by Obama and devised by Democratic senator, Max Baucus, has been meet with disapproval from members of both parties. Liberal Democrats argue that the health care bill would be a new financial burden for the middle class. Requiring all families to have insurance and penalizing as much as $3,800 if the don't, seems unfair to those families having to spend more than seven percent of their income on insurance. Obama urged demaocrats to stick together in order to make progress in the efforts to put a plan in place. The current system does not work and as long as we continue to debate and forgo change people and families continue to suffer as they have been. Obama explains on "CBS" that, "... If we don't do anything a lot of Americans are going to be much worse off". So eventhough I don't agree with every detail of the policy, I do believe that it is time to inact a new plan and I am willing to accept my rights and responsibilities under the new policy. President Obama said, "We've got to get past some of theses ideological arguments to actually make something happen", and he is right.
Although it is true that Baucus and some of his followers are now against the policy, you have to keep in mind that the majority of Dems are still for it. Baucus was working to create a policy that would come from both parties, yet as we already know the Republican party and the Democratic party rarely get along. Also, it is true that we do need to reform the health care bill but i believe we should be far from just settling on a policy just because we can no longer advance. We need to keep debating until this policy works for everyone and we do not need to go back and try to reform it once more.
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