Blog 10.1

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/05/the-note-512200.html

This article starts a bit critical of President Obama and his hopes for universal healthcare.  “President Obama has found perceptions to be easier to manage than realities,” author Rick Cline writes.  The major problem that this article focuses on is not the idea of health care reform; it is how it will be paid for.  The main problems are money and time—basically 2 trillion dollars over the next decade.  There is a quote from (finally confirmed) Kathleen Sebelius that I think is important to all of this.  She says, “People are demanding a chance…they want to be a part of the change.”  I think this is important because while the chances of this reform being successful may seem bleak, it is what the people seem to want…important in a democracy.