Will President Obama Prove Successful with the Supreme Court?

In BBC News Mark Mardell wrote an article titled, President Obama Faces Touch Choices on Healthcare, he uses this article to highlight the possible impending doom the Supreme Court could inflict on the President's upcoming election this year.

As we all know the "healthcare" he is referring to is also called Obamacare. This link will help you sift through the facts of the plan and not the talking points.

While I like the article and it was incredibly easy to read it was still media. Most of the time when reading or even watching media about the election it is either RED or BLUE with no purple people in between. What does that mean? I mean with any article or show it is going to be spun in favor of one party or another, but usually nothing about the in-betweeners who just want to know the facts from both parties.

Mardell did a very nice job of explaining why Obama is facing tough choices, focusing on the 'individual mandate' (which is being said to be unconstitutional) stated in Obamacare. He has input from representatives from both sides, a former speech writer for the Clinton administration, and a health specialist from Freedomworks, a Conservative campaign group. Both seem to agree Obama will fail, but both have very different opinions on the impact of that failure.

There were two things about this article that I felt were disappointing. I felt like there should have been a light shined on the current condition of our healthcare, and why we need change like the  Obamacare... or why we do not. For instance, according to the CDC in 2011 46.3 million American's were uninsured, and another 58.7 million were uninsured part of that year. People are dying because they do not have the resources they need to combat acute and chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, and even mental health services. We are on such an uneven playing field when it comes to healthcare and insurance. If parent's of babies with PKU or Phenylalanine disorders do not have insurance or cannot afford the incredibly expensive formula they are forced to feed them regular formula which ultimately causes mental retardation in those infants. These are only a few issues we face as a nation and I believe he should have touched base on some of the hot topics. The other part of his article I did not "like" was a comment made, "The president can moan about the Supreme Court if he likes, but he can't campaign for a law they have ruled to be unconstitutional", but in all fairness it is only because I know it is true.

Mardell did a great job of giving information to both sides as well as giving his opinion of what to expect in the upcoming months.