So it's been quite some time since I last wrote an entry, and I actually have a large list of topics I want to cover, so hopefully I'll be able to cover them all within the next few days.
Lots has happened since my last entry, and probably the biggest thing that has happened is the presidential signing of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" which is better known to America and the world as the late, but better late than never health care reform.
Now, this is not going to be a political blog by any means, but I'm sure politics will come into discussion every now and again because I am a political person with very strong views on certain things, and this blog happens to be about my thoughts and opinions. I'll try to be as open minded with my analysis as possible.
As far as health care goes, everyone was in agreement that health care was needed. However, it is ironic that the Republican party, who was in power for 8 consecutive years before Obama, is just now deciding that they agree we need health care reform when no attempt was made under President Bush to reform anything in the health care system. That being said, I do not think Bush is a bad man, just a poor leader who caught many bad breaks and made a few mistakes in his 8 year trek. Once Obama actually proposed a way to fix the system, Republicans all of the sudden want to devise their own plan when, in all actuality, this could have been done during the Bush years if they had wanted to bad enough.
Obama has great intentions, but I am not sure if the new health care system is the best one we could have devised, though I do believe there are many good things in the bill. Pre-existing conditions and more affordable health care were wanted by both sides, but this bill is very long and there is a lot of mystery in it. Now Republicans are trying to say that the bill is a government takeover, some sort of socialist attempt for the government to gain power. I completely disagree with this because I have seen no proof that the government will gain any power what so ever besides collecting more taxes from the wealthy, in order to provide health care for everyone, which, coming from a more privledged family, I agree that this will probably be best in the long run.
America has the best quality health care of any nation in the world, but prices continue to go out of the roof. This is unacceptable as an example to the world and I do think that health care reform was needed, I'll just be interested to see if the way that we have gone about it is the right way because in all honesty, no one knows as of now.
Until next time..
