Thursday, February 5, 2009

Child Health-Care Bill Signed

In hopes of making health coverage available for all Americans, Obama signed a bill that extends health insurance to low-income children. In contrast to our previous administration, in which two similar bills were vetoed by bush, child health care is now becoming a priority. This bill is the beginning of Obama’s health reform policy, and “While this bill is short of our ultimate goal of health reform, it is a down payment, and is an essential start” said Henry Waxman. The bill includes dental coverage and it requires states to provide equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses. I also agree that this is a good start for Obama, because the fact that he was able to implement his policy effectively is a sign of how he is bringing the “change” he always talked about during his campaign.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I think the reason he decided to sign this bill in early in his presidency is to try to gain and keep the support of the public. After all many would agree that the health of their children is important to them.

Jesse Chung said...

Expected. It is nice though that Obama is helping children who can't get health care because I just couldn't understand why Bush was so against it