At his inauguration, Obama declared that “What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility.” Not long after that speech, he signed a bill to spend $800 billion in tax-payer money (plus interest that accumulates) that unfortunately the government does not have. Not necessarily the kind of responsibility he was talking about. [...]
Forty years of lamenting on the floors of the Capitol and finally, the long due health care reform bill has been passed with 219 – 212 votes. The bill that will shape the whole nation, people who have no coverage at all, health workers on medical scrubs, and most importantly the insurers. The votes were [...]
The United States has gone through a wrenching debate over the reform of health care. The new bill cut to the essence of the United States as a republic and the sole of its citizens. This has been high stakes change management. What can the business world learn from this as a case study? I [...]
Health Reform Summit, February 25th, 2010 By David R Donohue, M.A. It is tempting to dismiss the bipartisan circus on health-reform convened by Barack Obama on Thursday February 25th as a colossal waste of time. After all, the gabfest involving senior Congressional leaders from both parties lasted well over six hours, with no tangible results. [...]
President Obama is meeting with both Democratic and Republican leaders this week in order to try to hammer out a national health care plan. Both sides have been complaining that the other side hasn’t been playing fairly; the Democrats say the Republicans are being obstructionist and the Republicans say that the Democrats have been conducting [...]
