Blog+Reflections

 __Obama: I'm no JFK__ President Obama says that sometimes he feels like this health care plan is hard to wrap his hand around it. I appreciate the fact that the president is keeping it 'real' with the American people. He also brought out that he is going through with this plan because he believes it will help the American people. I appreciate his determine nation, he proves the fact that nothing we want in life comes easy. This is a lesson to every American we have to continue to work hard for what we want in life. 2 RoundTable: Voters summit and midterm selections Many people bring race into the reason why people do not accept the health care plan. Race is not in my opinion the main reason why people do not agree with the health care plan, the reason in my opinion is that people are scared of change. And this change is a change that will affect everyone not just those that are not insured but those that are insured. The healthcare bill needs to be made perfect for people to approve it. Nothing is perfect so this will be a challege 3 Gates:Afghan Troop Decision in "Few Week" The speaker brought out that there is success in Afghan. Many politicana are on the fense on what stragies will work in Afghan. Many believe that we should stay there and help the people others believe that this work being done over there will not have success. I personally believe that we should withdraw out troops but doing this will not solve the problem in Afghan. But there are many issues in America like Health care, where the money should be going too instead of funding helping people in another country. 4 Schumer, Cornyn and health care In this week it was brought out that there will be a vote on a stimulate plan to help the economy 10/06/09. It is obvious that this economy is very horrible the unemployment numbers are getting higher by the day. It is said that the health care reform, idea's are very board, there isnt an exact guidline about who will be paying for this reform, the predesint said that the health companies will be taxed, but this is not clear. The cost of health needs to be reduce. Those who do not pay health insurance there check-up's and etc. is being paid by someone. The other issue is that the country will be in debt if something does not take place very soon.It was also brought out that if the houseing sells increased then this would help the economy a lot, because the more that is put into the economy the better the economy will be. 5 The president got the Noble Peace Prize last week. I dont understand how it is possible for a president to win this type of award. According to the Noble Peace Prize organization, the President is working very had to afford peace between countries. As the president seeks peace, in Palistin the third major attack occured last week. Eight soliders died in a 12 hour combat in Afgansitan. The president natural did not think he desired this award but only one person in history has turned down this award. For the past few weeks health care has not been in the for front of the countries issues, instead we worry about if the president will accept the Noble Peace Prize.

**2nd Quarter**
1. Title:Mapping Heath care reform Date: 10/22/09 today: 10/24/09 This map is designed to help many benifit from the new health care reform. In montana at-large there are 18.50 % of the people are uninsured but then in New York District 26 there is only 6.10%. This map helps the government to see how will truely benifit from this health care reform. The map also helps then to asses the health care problem with more accurance. It also become apparent to me that the districts with high percentages of uninsured are those who are less urbanized and also have high rates of obseity. So providing health care for those districts can lessen the number of unhealthy individuals in the United States.

2. Title: Podesta: Tax Pot to Pay for Health Care The question about taxes marijuana came into question. The government is not trying to tax those who have used it for health care reasons. The government has become aware of the fact that a lot of marijuana is being pass through boarder lines. It is not certain that Pot will be legalized anytime soon. But if it becomes legalized and they tax it, the government will be able to pay for the health care. title: Sens. McConnell and McCaskill on Health The government is going to give states options on what type of health care they want. The public option will be that everyone will have to take the same health care. Having this option can run a high bill for the upcoming generation of Americans. Many republican are against this option.

3. Title: Brazile: Stupak Amendment:' Outlaws Abortion' There has always been a controversy about abortions. There are many democrarte who are pro-life. The health care bill that was passsed saturday had a Stupak Amendment added to it. This Amendment makes Abortion illegal. Sentor Brazile felt as if under this new amendment women will not have their own choice. I am pro-life and I feel like even when a baby is an embroyo its considered a person. Many of us who are living today many not have been planned out by our parents but our parents choose to keep us. So as a women I agree with the Stupak Amendment. Many may feel like this is not fair but I believe that everyone has the right to life. Since this is the case then if a mother does not want her child then she can give it up for adoption. There are many people in the world that want children but can't have any, so they would appreciate a future mother not aborting her child.

4. Bottom Line on health care reform The bill for health care reform has been sent to the legislation. This bill includes laws that will require everyone to have health care. It will also include lower prices in health care. This lower price will enable lower class income people to get health care. It also includes that nobody will be able to be denied health care because of previous health issues. Nobody will lose their insurance because they lost there job. There is still the question though..... who will pay for this reform?? There are many avenues such as the rich having higher taxes to pay for it or the government paying for the health care. This health care reform is becoming more realistic now that it is being passed as a bill because this means that it will come into affect in my lifetime. This is one thing that I look forward to experiencing.

5. Green Room: Doctors, Patients, and Government The issue about women being insured for abortions was brought up into the green room discussion. I personally believe that abortions are wrong. I agreed with the senates who do not believe that abortion payment should be included in the health care reform. One of the senates brought out that women don't plan to have abortions ahead of time, so having the abortion plan in the health care reform is just a safety plan. I dont agree with that statement because many people will say "if I get pregnant i'm aborting it" so many women already made up there minds regardless of the situation. Another question was brought up about patients not having a relationship with there doctors because of insurance companies and it would get worse if the government is involved. Health insurance companies usually tell there patients which doctors they can and cannot go to. I believe that if a person has a problem with that then they should change there health care plan. Not having a relationship with your doctors is not a big problem compared to the amount of people who cant even see a doctor because they don't have health insurance. We're not sure how much involument the government will have in this new health care plan, so we all will have to wait and find out.

6. On tuesday the president is going to address the country about sending more troops in afangstan. 12 trillion dollor debt is what we are going through. 1 out of 4 kids are on food stamps and 1 out of 8 adults are on food stamps. The senate from vermont independent wants every country to support the increase of troops sent to afangstan. Another senate agrued that the Americans should pay for the war. I disagree with that thought because as brought out before we have our own problems in the United States. We as a people need to help the people in the country before we go out and try to help another country. I like how the senate from vermont brought out that the war president bush started, he didn't pay for it. So now the grandchildren and the children are the ones that have to pay for the war. This is not fair because we're going to have to pull the country out of debt and if we don't then there will be a domino affect. Senater from South Carolina Repblician does not support the health care reforms because he does not believe that this plan will never happen. He believes that we spend money on stimulus plans and the country is losing money. The senator from Vermont believes that the health care reform should go forth because many Americans do not have health care. I agree with this senator because there are many without health care, and many are dieing because of this fact. But I also agree with the sentor from South Carolina because nobody really knows who's paying for this new health care. The president may have to increase taxes and then the American people will not agree with this but it may have to be done.

1. Title: Senate Health Care Debate** 01/24/2010 There was a lot of problems in congress now because in Massachesttes the democrates are not in office. Because of this the republicans can gain the power in the senate. If this happenes then the president may have problems with passing the health reform bill. So now the president has to gain the republican approval of the republicans. So this week George had some of the senate's from different states to discussion the situation.
 * 3rd Quarter

2. Title: Bush, Clinton on Haiti:Lessons from the past 01/31/2010 I found this segment very interesting, because its two past presidents from different political parties coming together to help the relief with Haiti. Mr.Clinton brought out that before this earthquake he had found donors who wanted to give money to Haiti, so now this money is going to be put into use to rebuild the country. Mr. Bush brought out that are we as a people going to forget about the people in Haiti after this crisis period is over? Which is what that usually happens but he brought out that we have to continue to help better this country. The host of this segment started the disscussion off with a email his friend who lived in Haiti wrote him. The email brought out that people are hungry, crime is on the rise and health care id decaying. Many people are dieing because they can not get the proper health care that is needed. Even though many people are donating millions of dollars its not reaching the people. So both Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton agreed that the government needs to come together and develop a plan on how to go about distrubuting the money.

3. Title:Officials: Some Die in Con. Power Plant Explosion 02/7/2010 This article was not specifical on This Week. I thought it was apporiate though to write on it. Many people are concerned with the Power Plant in Westchester, many fear that there will be a terrosit attack on it. The fear has reach the point where schoolss have drills for students to be able to get out of the town as quick as possible. There are also medication that a person can take to keep themselves alive for a little while longer. In connecticut there was a explosion at a power plant in Middletown. It is known that 50 people where inside the plant. Mulitply people have died and the rest are injuried.

4.The Truth About Serving Sizes. 02/15/2010 This country is very unhealthy. It was brought that the last time the serving sizes was made was in the 90's. So if someones is on a diet and following the charts behind the product, they would be wrong. Also the FDA is considering wanting to change exactly where the labels are placed. I thought this was interesting because no matter where the labels are nobody will look at them. The only person that would look was someone on a diet.

5. Schwarzenegger:Fighting Obesity Part of Health Care Reform 02/21/10 Childhoot obesity is on the rise in the United States. Many different actions have taken place to help better inform parents about the health risk of childhood obesity. The First Lady Michelle Obama since her husband has taken office, have been an avodcate in prevention of childhood obesity. Governer Schwarzenegger says " “I think prevention is the biggest and most important part of health care reform,” It is pleasing to see that the governer is behind the First Lady because the more supporters she has the move affective her plan can be.

6. Earthquake in Chile 02/28/10 There was an Earthquake in Chile that was worst than what hit Haiti. But there was less deaths in Chile primarliy because in Chile the people are use too having earthquakes so their building structure was more capable of handling an earthquake. But the people in Chile are still dealing with after shocks. It seems like everywhere is getting earthquakes, and there is a need for building structures to be more able to handle an earthquake.

4th quater 03/15/10 Title: Axelrod on Health Care The main problem in the White House is the passing of the Health Care Reform bill. Many republicans and also democrates are against it because the majority of the population do not agree with this plan. Many are still uncertain of how this new bill is going to be paid. Many do not agree with the government having total control of the health care. I personally feel that no matter what the president trys to do with this health care bill, someone will get affected negatively.

03/22/10 Title: Down to the Wire: Reps Spar as Health Care Vote Loons The Health Care reform has been the most talked about issue on the news. Many republicans are against this reform and claim the the people of the United States are also. "President Roosevelt passed Social Security, President Roosevelt passed Medicare, and today, [|Barack Obama] will pass health care reform, demonstrating whose side we are on," Larson told ABC News guest host Jonathan Karl. M Mr. Larson brought out that thousands of people a day are dieing because they do not have health insurance, and many more are losing their insurance everyday. I'm not sure about what the health care reform bill actually contains in it. The last time the president had a public address I listen to it, but since then the bill has been changed a lot. So I am not sure if I am against or for this bill

03/29/10 Title: Governors on Health Care Some people want to have a lawsuit against the president because of this health care bill. The Governor brought out that there is more power given to nurse practiceners. He also brought out that the bill will help people who had sickness before will be able to get health care even though they where sick in the past. But people are still against it, so the bill is going back nso nthe president can fix certain things. But the bill also says that everyone has to have health care even if they don't want it or not. I think this new bill will always cause controversey.

04/10/10 title: Sam: kARZAI iS WEIRD tHIS man is convinced that many of the elections in the middle east are fixed. They brought out that he said that if they don't change the elections then he would move to the other side. Refering to Karzai. They also said that Karzai and his brother are crazy. This have nothing to do with health care. There wasnt anything to do with health care this week.

4/13/10 Title: New Laws in Nebraska add restriction Nebraska has changed the abortion laws. This is causing controversy, many women feel like this is another law to not allow women to have their on choice. They decided that at 20 weeks a women shouldnt have an abortion. This is because they say that a baby is able to feel pain at this point. Many say that there's no research that proves that. But there is a lot of research that proves they feel pain.