7 November 2012
George Bush and President Obama: Critical Decisions When you’re driving down the road, passing through a school zone, do you ever think about who initially suggested slowing down while school is in session? When you’re sitting in the doctor’s office or emergency room, do you ever think about the group of people who put together the process of health care? Sure you don’t, but health care and education reform are key issues that Presidents must configure to best suite America. While a specific situation is being worked on by the executives, the smaller guys must continue to present challenges on how to improve the conditions of such issues. Previous president George W. Bush and current president Barrack Obama both had interesting viewpoints to prove while in office. Bush had 2 terms to pass the No Child Left Behind act, which was a significant accomplishment in education reform in a long time. In his George Bush Delivers Remarks on the No Child Left Behind Act speech, Mr. Bush stated, “Every single child can learn, and that we’ve got to make sure that every single child does learn.” We all know that Ex-president George W. Bush was representing the state of Texas in 2000 and 2004. But you probably don’t know that Texas has had one of the nation’s worst public health records for a long number of years. More than a one fourth of its residents have no health insurance. In the Executive Order 13410 Promoting Quality & Efficient Health Care in Federal government Administered or Sponsored Health Care Programs, Mr. Bush made sure the purpose of this order was to ensure that health care programs administered or sponsored by the Federal government, promote quality and efficient delivery of health care, through the use of health information technology, better incentives for program beneficiaries, enrollees, and providers. In the Bush Wrests Health Care From Democrats article of the Wall Street Journal, author John C. Goodman writes, “Health