The President Needs to Step Up This Health Care Debate

President Barack Obama will give a speech to a joint committee of Congressmen on September 9, 2009 to kick start the health care debate again. President Obama is facing pressure from all sides to provide specific details about his public option plan and what is to be included in the health care legislation. Sentor Sherrod Brown of Ohio, stated that "I think the president needs to step forward... (and) be more specific, more aggressively fight for a strong health reform bill with a strong public option. I think he's going to do that." President Obama's approval rating has severely down of the past months due to this unresolved health care reform issue, which was a large portion of his campaign promise. The general public and congressmen a like, have become confused about the direction that this legislation and need the president to address some key issues before anything is going to be passed by Congress.

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Sad Day for Health Care Reform

On Wednesday August 29, 2009, Sentor Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts died at his home in Hyannis Port of brain cancer. President Barack Obama took a break from his vacation with his family on Martha's Vineyard to pay his respect to the last sentor. Ted Kennedy was a leader in the Senate as well as an avid supporter of health care reform. It remains to be seen how his absence will affect the health care debate and final outcome of the reform.