by none288

Created on: September 11, 2009

There has been a lot of commotion concerning health care reform lately, and honestly I haven't felt obligated to touch on the issue. It just wasn't something that seemed apocalyptic to me. Until now.

Last night, President Obama addressed the nation and assured everyone that he was still backing health care reform. He wasn't afraid to be partisan, he wasn't afraid to ask Congress to get off the bench, but he still isn't being aggressive enough on this issue. He's backtracking from his original stance of revolutionizing privatized health care. The message of the campaign trail and of early this year has been drowned out by all the hooting and the hollering at the town hall meetings this summer. Obama probably would have had a better chance at revolutionizing health care if Congress hadn't been so slow to act before their August recess.

Perhaps, Obama is unable to rally sufficient support around health care reform because Obama has lost the backing of the youthful grassroots movement that buoyed him into the White House. When it comes to health care only seniors seem interested. Young people get more fired up over issues like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, gay rights, and abortion. However, even though health care reform will affect the aging and ailing baby boomers immediately and directly, neglecting health care can have an adverse effect on the future families of said college activists.

Young people debate on the pros and cons of the surge in Afghanistan and the legitimacy of CIA's torture allegations, while health care is actually more important to preserving the American way of life. Even though military spending makes up the bulk of the government's budget, this predicament has been around since World War II and has become the norm. Meanwhile, health care has raised it's ugly head and become the biggest stressor on the private sector and our nation's overall economy. If this problem isn't fixed now, the repercussions it could have on the already burdened middle and lower classes will be dire. The existence of a large, prosperous and educated middle class is what has allowed the United States to prosper and avoid bloody uprisings. Wiping out the middle class by way of heavy health care costs after a grim recession will increase the gap between the rich and the poor, making the United States no more stable than many nations in Africa, Southeast Asia or Latin America. Health care reform is like Titanic. If it it sinks, the results will be tragic.

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