President Barack Obama’s health plan was created to help the average American by substantially lowering costs for families and not requiring adults to purchase insurance, and in return, only wealthy people’s taxes would increase. “But a year later, the health care proposals in Congress lack many of those easy-to-sell benefits, which became victims of the lengthy process of trying to win over wavering lawmakers, appeasing powerful special-interest groups and addressing concerns about the heavily burdened Treasury,” reports MSNBC.
Because Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat, previously held by Edward Kennedy, health care legislation is without a very important 60th vote. MSNBC states that, “relentless attacks by the Republicans — as well as the Democrats’ own inability to clearly articulate the benefits of the legislation — are partly responsible for the legislation’s lack of popularity.” Jonathan Oberlander, associate professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill says, “Health reform is a really hard thing to do…They did a lot right, strategically. But you can do everything right and still fail in health reform.”
Why do you think health care reform didn’t have more public support?
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