Health Care Reform, Up and Down and All Around

The threat of a Republican filibuster, or the Republicans opposition to a Heath Care Rformation

Nothing says Hoiliday Season like a fresh new heathcare policiy straight from the poilitical oven. Last Christmas Eve, in a dramatic turn of events, Senate passed the new Heath Care Reform piece of legislation amid the winter festivityies. Also in January, 2010, the election brought about a shift in power because the Democratic vote needed for a super majority left with the liberal man, Senetor Kennedey, who was replaced by Scott Brown, which left the bill in a great threat of a Republican filibuster. The Democrats had no choice but to push ahead, and have the bill on the President's desk by March.  As the Obama administration jumped for joy, and asserted the important impact that this plan will have on the county's economic, and social vitality, others off in other meetig plotted against the legislation, planning to nip its political bud. The conservative Republicans basically began filing roughly twenty lawsuits against the policy caliming that it was unconstitutional. This uproar is resultant of the "individual mandate" that would take opporation in 2014, which would make it law that everyone must purchase health insurence or else pay a fine. Many people feel that this health care measure is somewhat communist, but that is an ignorant statement. Peolpe do not want there to be beuriucratic involvement in the healthcare system. The beauricratic system would make it more difficult for healthcare policies to be passesd becasue of the many poeple involved in a beuracratic system. Some calim that the government knows nothing about heath care. However, the policicy is very liberal by nature, and looks out for the common good of the American citizens. 
Theda Skocpol, a Harvard government and sociology professor and co-author of the new book Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, commented : "Americans are ideological conservatives but operational liberals. That's been an established principal in political science and the study of American public opinion for 50 years." So basically, if you ask someone if they want small businesses to get enough money to be able to support their workers with heath insurance, then the average citizen would most likely answer liberally, but on the other hand, if you ask them if they want the government or the market to tell them what to do they will answer more conservatively. What makes this issue over health care reform so evident in current politics is the effort to change some of the policies present in the law. With the Republican-led house, the law is likely to lose funding for certain aspects and the required heath-insurance "mandate" may be declared unconstitutional.

Source:

Rovner,Julie."The Year In Health Care Policy: A Topsy-Turvy Ride".27 December 2010.NPR.<http://www.npr.org/2010/12/27/132262508/the-year-in-health-care-policy-a-topsy-turvy-ride:>