Health Care Anyone?

After reading the article on Clinton and Obamas' plans for economic recovery, I noticed that neither nominee mentioned anything about trying to fix America's health care crisis. Do these nominees not think having nearly 50 million Americans with out health coverage is a crisis in the economy? With one out of every six people uninsured and the majority of these uninsured peopole being children. And the cost of health insurance rising more and more each year I believe this should be an issue in our economy these nominees should take an interest in. I think someone should be proposing a way to reduce the cost of health insurance for those Americans who cannot afford it and/or those who are unemployed.

Clinton's focus for bringing the economy out of recession is on a $2.5 billion job retraining program, which would help the government place displaced workers. Obama's focus is on a $30 billion campaign to rescue struggling homeowners and the jobless. Before the primary elections I heard little from Obama about the homeowners crisis and more about the health care crisis. Why is he changing his strategy now? I guess we will find out come November which issue is the most important in the eyes of the citizens who will have a voice in the popular vote, and weather or not the nominee chosen to be our President will fulfill his/her proposals to the people of the United States.

Dream Ticket ? You Bet

After reading John Dean's article on Clinton and Obama or Obama and Clinton, I do agree that the fight is on for the superdelegates. Each team has their own breakdown on how the delegates are leaning, but there are still alot of them that are up in the air. I know that Bill and Chelsea Clinton have been working for Hillary and Tom Daschle is pushing for Obama, but at this point it is hard to say if Bill is helping or hurting Hillary and also how much help Daschle really is being to Obama.

I know that here in Williamson County, there was a record number of voters voting in the democratic primary. I believe that this was true in most counties. I found myself still somewhat undecided on election day. I did alot of research, read alot of blogs and news articles on both Obama and Clinton. In the end, I found that I could just not get past the fact that Hillary had voted for the war in Iraq and I voted for Obama. Hillary won Texas and she is back in the game.

To tell the truth, I would not be disappointed as long as one of the two wins the election. In his article John Dean discusses how the supporters of the candidate that does not get the nomination could be so upset that they might turn on their own party. I am hopefully that Clinton and Obama can keep the party together and come to an agreement on how to assure a party win no matter which one is on the ticket.

I think that it would be wonderful to have a "dream ticket", with Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama. I think this would be one way to get the best of both worlds and hold the
party together. Each candidate has stated that it is too early to discuss such a ticket, but you
know that in the back of their minds they have to be considering it. I guess we will have to wait until August to see how it all plays out.