While the health care bill was watered down to be far more complicated and not nearly as useful as it should have been, at least it:
- prevents insurance companies from denying insurance because of pre-existing conditions
- allows children to be covered by their parents insurance until the age of 26
- cut prescription drug costs for medicare recipients by 50%
Also, he has extended benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, expanded hate crime laws to include sexual orientation, increased funding for the "Violence Against Women Act", added funding for mental health professionals to the Veterans Administration budget and created the department of the Chief Technology Officer to promote scientific advancement.
I don't think Obama corrupt. I think he got into politics to do the right things. I think he genuinely cares about his country and the people that live in it. HOWEVER, I don't think he knows how things get done in Washington or how to get real results. In the last two years he should have been able to hammer through sweeping changes across the board and he stupidly tried to negotiate with the Republicans and blue-dog Democrats and everything got tied up in committees. I think the Democrats being swept out in the mid-term elections is more out of anger on lack of progress towards desired goals rather than a statement that they don't want those desired goals. Obama promised change and for the most part, they got more of the same.
Those claiming Obama to be fiscally irresponsible based on the increased debt load over the past 2 years - how much of that was actually part of the bailout monies that Bush pushed through Paulson?
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