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...time when 46 million people lack health insurance and rising premiums outpace the growth in wages, healthcare required far-reaching reform. Left to the status quo, more and more Americans would lose coverage due to soaring costs, and system inefficiencies restricting the quality of care would engulf the industry. And with retiring Baby Boomers mounting additional stress on providers, the situation called for bold and decisive action. This legislation puts America on track to solve these pressing issues by insuring 32 million people and enacting consumer protections that will counter the host of problems plaguing the system...
Meanwhile, amidst the muddling political circus in Congress, Obama and his administration showed tenacity in refusing to forfeit their vision for reform. Campaigning on the promise of fixing America’s unfair and unsustainable healthcare system, Obama put reform at the top of his political agenda and did not allow the debate to disappear from the public consciousness. As calls to throw out the bill and begin from scratch grew raucous upon Brown’s stunning election in January, Obama and his team increased their efforts by appealing directly to members of both parties and their constituents...
...must instead renew the hope of progress promised to a nation and repair the divisions that threaten its realization. This is our Civil War to fight and America’s two-party system, our “peculiar institution” to overcome...
...challenge we now face is a longer-term polarization of our political system into a confrontational boxing match, each party unrelenting when the other is in power. Recourse from the current route requisites systemic change; anything less will spiral to dystopic ends. As apart as the North and South seemed when the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter 150 years ago, party lines divide America today. The war we face comes with its costs of progress and efficiency, as each side fights to preserve its vision of America. The pivot of this “new secession?...
Abandoning party affiliations in our government and instead assessing issues point-by-point is the only solution to reviving the complexities and beauty of our pluralistic political system, shortchanged by the outlandish desire to paint the nation blue or red. Should we not abolish our two-party system with the utmost urgency, then it will instead threaten to destroy the faithful representation of the people and the unity of our republic. We cannot continue to gerrymander America into ideological boundaries—a distinct Democratic States of America and Republican Confederacy. That is the inevitable outcome of our current...