Analysis of Obama's Health Care Plan and Race

In the late weeks of August and the early weeks of September, President Obama’s health care plan was beginning to show signs of difficulty to the public. At this time, President Obama was first starting to get to his long list of demands for the country, where the health care reform plan was at the top. So during the early days of September, he had to keep reassuring the public that he was getting to working on the health care plan. Many found this wait frustrating because they wanted President Obama's health care plan reform as soon as possible. That is why in a survey done in late August, President Obama’s overall approval rating was just a little above 50 percent. This number is totally different from the percentages during his earlier days in office. But during the first days of September, President Obama finally gave the people what they want, which was particulars for his health care plan. President Obama announced that the health care plan will consist of about $900 billion over 10 years and will reassure the elderly and Americans who already have insurance so, these people are not worse off. Basically with President Obama's health care plan he wants to provide the American people with insurance coverage and cut cost of medical bills. Links below provide more information on President Obama’s health care reform.

• · http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32752036/
• · http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/obama_on_health.html
• · http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2009-09/2009-09-02-voa50.cfm?CFID=301221914&CFTOKEN=69476936&jsessionid=6630d64dc7c79a7955f2732c3c4fafc3b4b6http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/09/obama.speech/
• http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/17/us/politics/AP-US-Health-Overhaul-Summary.html

After President Obama revealed his health care plan, more problems arise. These problems consist of people who are for or against Obama's proposal because of the issues, and people who are for or against Obama proposal because of his race.

Some Republicans feel like the health care plan will do no good with the current health situation, and are currently trying to amend some of parts of the Democrats reform proposal and the Congressional Democrats are most likely not going to allow these changes but we will see in the long run. Whereas the Democrats are backing President Obama's health care plan for the most part. The links below provide more information on the debate of passing the view.

• · http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/21/bill.clinton.larry.king/index.html
• · http://www.reuters.com/article/Washington09/idUSTRE59I4Y720091019
• http://www.studentprintz.com/senate-committee-backs-health-bill-1.793370
• http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090808/D99UJ4B00.html

On the other side of the spectrum, there is the view of how some people feel like President Obama's health care plan is a socialist idea. Also, there is the idea of some being against President Obama’s health care plan, just because of his race. In the middle of September, former President Jimmy Carter was claiming that recent attacks on President Obama were racist and that most of the negative comments and ads to the health care plan are racist. Later that day, Robert Gibbs, who is the White House's spokesman, responded to Carter’s response, and stated that President Obama felt the comments were not "based on the color of his skin."

• · http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rodriguez21-2009sep21,0,1722453.column
• · http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/16/carter-racism-claim-draws-widespread-criticism/
• · http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/15/carter.obama/index.html

· http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32920370/ns/politics-white_house/
· http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/health/policy/19obama.html?_r=1
· http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=106604&sectionid=3510203
· http://www.examiner.com/a-2225123~Obama__Health_care_anger_not_motivated_by_his_race.html
· http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Barack-Obama-Says-Racism-Not-To-Blame-For-Criticism-Of-US-Healthcare-Reform-Plans/Article/200909315384506?f=rss
· http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/21245741/detail.html

Right now, race and President Obama's health care plan is not shown much in the media, since most people are trying to get away from the race aspect, but in my future post I will discuss some more ways of why some people are against the health care plan and also discuss what is currently happening in the news with the passing of the bill. Below are some links of sites that are extra sites that I used.

• · http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,379521,00.html
• · http://www.necn.com/Boston/Politics/2009/01/16/Barack-Obamas-historic/1232161472.html
• · http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f111708_President
• · http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/10/obama.president/index.html
• · http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/28/race-based-protests-direc_n_271129.html
• · http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32957739/ns/entertainment-television/
• · //www.racismreview.com/blog/feed/
• · http://cqresearcherblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/overview-of-this-weeks-report-race-and.html