Two Views on Healthcare Reform

Drew Conrad: Across America, people of all backgrounds and political persuasions are seeing the foolishness in President Obama's rush to reform healthcare. The President's call to ram the bill through congress by August is quite disturbing and is causing the opposition movement to gain steam and move quickly. Congress has developed the unthinkable habit of passing unread and unfamiliar legislation. We witnessed a gigantic stimulus bill and a garbage-filled ‘Cap and Trade' bill that were not read, yet passed in the House of Representatives. The issue of healthcare reform deserves a sincere discussion, close examination, and an exploration of every possible option. Anything short of this is an absolute insult to the medical profession, taxpayers, business owners, and to those families who would most benefit from healthcare reform. The need for reform is obvious, however, President Obama's way is not the best way, and a surprising demographic is turning out in droves to demonstrate this notion: young people.

Sarah Day: The hot topic of the day for both Republicans and Democrats is reforming health care. My question is, are college students thinking about health care reform? I spent this last weekend attending the College Democrats of America convention in Washington D.C. While health care was a large part of the discussion amongst the leadership there, I am not so sure Utah's college students are considering being part of this discussion. In my opinion it is time that we do. For the last forty years health care reform is something that has been talked about but we have never been able to accomplish. There is no more time to argue, we need to come together and fix health care now. During the Obama campaign last year he would often quote Martin Luther King Jr. and say that there is " a fierce urgency of now." This statement could not be more true right now for the health care issue. America can no longer wait for the politics of health care reform to get fixed.