The Obstacles To President Obama’s Health Care Reform-a Social And Cultural Perspective

The United States is the only industrialized country without a national coverageof health care insurance. The efforts of the Obama Administration to revamp the UShealth care system and expand the coverage of the medical insurance, aimed atimproving the living conditions and social benefits of the general public of the UnitedStates, have met with strong resistance from the society, which is almostincomprehensible to most of the countries desperately in need of the government’sdetermination in reforming the health care system. In examining the reasons for thestrong objection and resistance by the American public, the author delves further intoAmerican core values regarding work, mobility, status, moralism, etc. and the natureand structure of the American society, and arrives at the conclusion that cultural andsocial factors have also contributed in large measure to the obstacles to reforming thehealth care system of the United States by the Obama Administration.