Joe Wilson interrupted his speech by yelling "You lie!" More than 880,000 Facebook status updates demanding the health care reform were posted within 24 hours, according to CNN's column article published on the same day. On September 9th, President Obama delivered an address about the health care bill before a joint session of Congress, during which the Rep. On August 6th, 2009, YouTuber DougFromUpland uploaded a Hitler's reaction video titled "HITLER RANTS ABOUT OBAMA HEALTHCARE AND RIGHT WINGERS," (shown below, left) which has received more than 226,000 views as of July 2012.Īs the Congress prepared to reconvene in September, advocates of the reform launched a grassroots social media campaign on Facebook to shape the public opinion regarding the bills. Meanwhile, conservative bloggers across the country dubbed the reform initiative "Obamacare" and characterized his political ideology as Socialist, a label that is still considered scandalous in the United States politics.
The survey post, which asked "What worries you most about the healthcare system in our country?", went onto receive more than 2,200 comments within the first 24 hours.ĭuring the congressional summer recess in August 2009, members of the Tea Party movement rapidly mobilized around the issue of the proposed health care reform bills and organized protests online as well as at the congressional town hall meetings. Shortly after winning the election in November 2008, the newly elected President Obama launched the website, where public opinion regarding the health issues became one of the first major discussion topics on the site. The then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was among the most progressive advocates of universal health care and upon entering the office, it became one of the most critical and high-priority policy initiatives under his administration. While numerous initiatives towards universal health care coverage have been proposed under several administrations spanning over the past decades, the public interest in health care reform reached its pinnacle as one of the main policy issues during the 2008 presidential campaign. The modern health care reform efforts in the United States began with the federal enactment of Medicare and Medicaid programs under the Lyndon B.
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