Political Science

The most tremendous debate that has been focused on in the current American politics is the health care reforms debate. The health reform bill was proposed by President Barrack Obama, the head of the Federal state. However, in the United States politics, the constitution does not provide for a president with absolute powers. Instead most of the political decisions are steered by the Congress and the Judiciary (Darlington, 2009). This is a contributing factor to the long time being taken for the health reform bill to be passed.

The Health Reform Bill
The health reform bill is currently awaiting legislation, and this can only be achieved through a two thirds vote for the bill, by the Congress. The major provisions in the bill include providing quality health care to every American by ensuring that health insurance is made affordable and accessible to everyone including the low earning families and small scale business owners. Moreover, exploitative and discriminative practices of the insurance companies are going to be put into check and the peoples health insurance choices are going to be widened (Hornick, 2010).This sounds like an attractive proposition considering that deaths and sufferings from illnesses are going to be reduced and it is expected that anyone would grab the opportunity to implement such great ideas. However, the hesitant conversion of the bill into law is almost wholly attributed to the American politics rather than any threats that the bill has to offer.

Parties Involved
First, the debate is carried out by the Congress representatives who can be members of either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. President Obama, who proposed the bill, belongs to the Democrats. It is expected that the health reform bill is likely to be passed, considering that Democrats are majority in the Congress, usually made up of the Senate and House of Representatives. On the other hand, the bill has faced a lot of criticism especially from the Republican representatives, citing government take-over of the health care system, increased budgetary expenditure if the bill is passed, unfair abortion provisions and interference with private insurance among other criticisms.

Relation of the health reforms to previous class readings
The health reforms debate transcends deeply in the American political culture, decision of society goals, political conflict and competition and concept of the political system in the following ways first, it is decided on views based on the two major political divides, the Democrats and Republicans beliefs in relation to the importance to the American people, for instance, democrats and republicans show varied views on abortion. This has been witnessed by competition among the two representations as to which side gets its views accepted. For instance, Republicans want to maintain the former health care system while Democrats are in favor of new one. It is observed that all the government arms-the executive, legislative and judicial are involved in federal decisions.

Conclusion
The United States is a democratic society that allows for free expression of views and a vote system that concludes the ideology of the majority. In my view, this is a great political culture that tries to incorporate everyone views as evidenced by the president reaching out to Republicans by including some of their views in the health reform bill. However, such a system is likely to be faced with partisanship and could lead to a failed implementation of excellent policies just because of different party affiliations and also wastes time in getting all the parties to agree on a particular issue.