Category: by Nathan N ’11

I began writing this article with the full intention of providing an unbiased, objective review of Obama’s first year in the White House.  As I began doing research and once my brain started functioning normally from whatever state it had been operating in before, I realized that this would be impossible.  This is because different people say that he has done different things.  For instance a majority of the far right Republican Conservatives believe that he has destroyed the economy, taken away all of our freedoms and that he is a fascist planning to euthanize all of our grandparents.  However the left wing liberal democrats will tell you that Obama has done nothing at all.  They (I) am upset that he has not come across harder on many issues other than healthcare, and just how effective the healthcare reform will be is

Health Care is the major issue of our time.  During the antebellum period the great problem was slavery.  During the sixties it was human rights and foreign policy.  Each generation has its calling, and though we should never stop pushing forward on all fronts we must recognize that health care is our calling.  For a hundred years presidents have been calling for Health Care reform, and in the sixties we created Medicare to secure health care for our seniors.  Later on we created Medicaid for the poorest segment of our country, but today millions of people still struggle to find affordable health insurance.  If you are not a millionaire or living in abject poverty, health care is probably a struggle for you.  Of course the degree to which this struggle affects your life depends on what coverage you have, on whether you are self-employed or not, and on many other circumstances, one of which is pre-existing conditions.
As of now, health insurance companies such as Aetna, or Anthem, or