Health Care Bill now law - President Obama still must sell it to the American People

Trying to win people to support legislation such as the health care bill without bi-partisan support can be a career killer, especially for President Obama. But he deeply believes that what the bill represents is the change that is needed in health care reform. He is willing to sacrifice a second term in office than to try and play things safe, in comparison to George Bush. Mr. Bush's domestic agenda was no where as strong as President Obama's. President Obama has only been in office for nearly 2 years. It seems sometimes that the harder he tries to do what he believes is right, the harder it is to get things done. Sometimes going with the status quo is not the answer. Most American people believe that they know what is right for them, but if you would listen to any one of them, their opinions are different. They can all make the general statement that President Obama's health care reform bill will not work, but you can't say that if you haven't given the bill a chance to take hold.


President Obama is smarter than most peole think. He will work on pulling support for his bill until the end. In the midst of his travels, parts of the bill will be phased in, and more and more people will be able to see the benefits. He is banking his future on his sincere belief that what he is doing is right for everyone.

The main issues with what I see about the bill is that the President wants all Americans to have insurance, and if they do not participate in a plan that they qualify for, then they must be fined for not participating. Most Americans will agree that it is against our Constitutional right to be forced to participate in health care or anything for that matter, and there will be a long hard legal fight to repeal the law. I highly doubt that the opposition of the bill can have the law repealed. If that is done, President Obama just wasted a year in office with sleepless nights trying to find ways to make his bill happen. Instead, now he will fight sleepless nights traveling around the country in support for his bill.

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Polls show so far that the Presidents Health Care Reform bill has Little Support

The polls continue to come out regarding how the American public feels about the health care overhaul. According to a poll conducted from March 29th through April 1, most Americans disapprove and are very skeptical of the health care reform bill signed into law by President Obama only a week ago. 53% of the people polled disapprove, and only 32% approve, while 15% of the pubic still doesn't know. President Obama continues to travel throughout the country to talk about his health care reforms now set to take place. As stated in a previous article, the President went to Portland, Maine, where he told the people that it would take more than a week for the benefits of reform to become apparent. For the most part, the poll shows that the Presidents ability to help build support for the bill is not working, along with at least 6 out of 10 Americans that now believe that the health care bill will not eventually reduce the budget deficit, but increase it. This is bad news for President Obama. Still he appears to be unscathed with the news. He will continue to plug his health care reform bill, in an attempt to finally win people over to his side. But like he said, it's only been a week. After all Rome wasn't built in one day.

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