Health Care Reform

While most conservatives are coming up with excuses on why our country does not need health care reform, liberalists are doing everything in their power to finally get reform passed. A liberalist is simply someone who believes in liberty for everyone. A liberalist feels that the government should involve itself in order to help social needs. Right now it is clear to most that our current health care system is broken. Health insurance companies are taking advantage of American citizens by constantly raising their premiums and decreasing their quality of care. These companies seem to be much more interested in their share holders rather than their members. The government has come closer than ever to passing health care reform, but the process is now stalled due to the strong opposition of the republican party. However, it seems that each liberalist who believes in passing reform is not going to let the recent progress die due to false claims.

With health care premiums rising and the quality of care plummeting, liberalists are constantly protesting for reform to the system. Many liberalists believe that there is no use for health insurance companies and that they only serve as a middle man, which seems rather pointless. One health insurance company in California announced that they were going to raise their premiums by almost forty percent. The same company also recently reported record profits and increasing earnings for its top CEO. If the company is profiting more than expected, why does it need to raise costs for its members? The company has not made it clear where the extra money will be spent. This is just one example out of many that have liberalists furious. Each liberalist believes that the government needs to fix this problem immediately.

The republican party has always been against health care reform. Any liberalist would most likely blame the republican party for blocking health care reform in 1994 under President Clinton. There are several possible reasons why the party of no is against reform. Most importantly is the notion of conservatives to keep the government out of people’s lives in every aspect possible. Conservatives generally believe that the government’s role is to allow people to be free and basically govern themselves or fix their own problems. A liberalist will find this belief troubling when thinking about both our health care and financial systems as two prime examples. A liberalist would argue that any institution that deals with money will allow room for financial greed by those in power. If those in power are taking advantage of the people under them, there is no higher power to stop them. This is why liberalists believe in bigger government in order to prevent this from happening and to fix the problems that these situations create. Another reason why republicans are against health care reform might be because of the insurance company’s role in their current positions. Many elected officials, both democrat and republican have received millions of dollars each year from the insurance companies. Whether it is to help their campaigns or to influence their vote on certain pieces of legislation is unclear, but one cannot not deny the influence money has on politicians.

It should not just be a liberal view that all American citizens should have access to affordable quality health insurance. At a time when our country is facing extreme financial hardship, we should take advantage of every opportunity we get in order to make the American people healthier.

Barack Obama

In November of 2008 it seemed that the majority of American citizens had liberal views on the country. We had elected a liberal President of the United States. After eight years of an extreme conservative controlling the White House, it seemed to make sense to have a person with liberal views fix the problems created by the conservative. Barack Obama has what some call extreme liberal views on the world and he ran on a liberal platform. From his beliefs on health care to the economy, as well as his education and energy policies, it is his liberal views that made him so popular with the American people.

* President Barack Obama believes that the government should provide an alternative health care insurance option for those who do not already have or are not happy with their own insurance. Not only would this provide health insurance to those who are unemployed or cannot afford it, but it would create competition by forcing insurance companies to lower their rates and improve care. This is an extremely liberal idea. Conservatives do not believe in the government getting involved with the health care system. President Obama’s opposition criticize his liberal views by claiming he is proposing socialized medicine and just looking to grow government in every way he can.

* With our economy in a deep recession, President Obama has taken a liberal stance on fixing the financial system by suggesting stronger regulation in order to prevent the big banks and investors from taking the same risks they have been for the last thirty years. Many of the president’s supporters are in favor of his liberal views because the conservative’s methods have not been working for a long time.

What doesn’t make sense to many Americans is how conservatives, who got us into the mess we are in now, are so quick to judge President Obama’s liberal approach. President Bush came into office with a record surplus and left Obama with a huge financial deficit. America also got involved with two wars under president Bush. So now that a man with liberal views is in office, conservatives suddenly claim to be financial and foreign policy experts. President Obama has been in office for a little over a year and conservatives are criticizing him for not having fixed the problems of the previous eight years. The partisanship of the republicans has gone to far. They are a big part of why we are in this current mess, so it is time for President Obama and the democrats to use their majority and restore faith in the United States government by bringing change to the politics and policies of the Bush administration.

Liberal Politics

There are many Americans who believe that any American citizen should be able to marry who ever they want. Whether that person is of the same sex or not. Liberalism promotes freedom and liberty for all people. The conservatives who are against gay marriage have never presented much of an argument. Liberal politics should not play a role in this issue, because this has to due with individual rights. If a man wants to marry another man, that will not effect anybody else besides the two men getting married. People who believe in liberalism believe that anybody should be able to do what they want as long as it is not harming anybody else. Those who object to gay marriage claim that gay couples should not receive the same tax benefits as straight couples, but why? If a gay couple receives tax benefits how does that effect anybody else? The main argument that conservatives make is that gay marriages ruin the basic institution of marriage. However, that is based on opinion and it is also unclear on how the effects anybody personally. To those that believe in liberalism, it seems that conservatives are against gay marriages due to a personal bias. It would make the debate healthier if people were honest about why they were against it instead of playing liberal politics with an important matter. Liberalism is argued to be one of the healthiest beliefs in today’s society. We should be able to tell anybody what they can or cannot do just because we do not agree with it. This game of liberal politics might help politicians gain political points. However, liberal politics are not doing any good for homosexuals that are denied the right to marry the person that they love.

It is liberalism that is helping this cause make sufficient progress. In addition to gay marriage, liberals have fought hard to get the don’t ask don’t tell policy of the military appealed and the matter recently had it’s first hearing in over seventeen years. Conservatives seem to be against everything and not for anything. It is very hard for the country to make progress when we are not willing to change. By electing Barack Obama as the President of the United States, gays and lesbians have seen some progress in government, but President Obama has not been as active in office as he claimed he would be during his presidential campaign. However, gay activists have come a long way in the past century. It was not too long ago when even admitting you were gay would result in being scorned and harsh legal punishments.