President Obama becomes sensitive about health care policy

President Obama becomes sensitive about health care policy

President Obama found a new way to answer to the questions that people have to ask him. So he held a “virtual townhall” in which people could write in questions and he would answer them online. He was asked many questions, and one of the most important was about the legalization of marijuana. Obama was very discreet about it.

We will give you the full question : "With over 1 out of 30 Americans controlled by the penal system, why not legalize, control, and tax marijuana to change the failed war on drugs into a money making, money saving boost to the economy? Do we really need that many victimless criminals?”

The president’s answer was a strategical one. He started by quoting the question he was asked which was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation. And he answered : "The answer is no, I don’t think that’s a good strategy to grow our economy. All right.”

One of the questions that was about health care policy made the president talk about his daughter, Sasha , and her life-threatening case of meningitis when she was a baby. He said that when his daughter was three months old she was hospitalized with life-threatening meningitis. Obama gave this unknown news at an unprecedented White House Internet town-hall meeting. “The doctors did a terrific job, but frankly it was the nurses that were there with us when she had to get a spinal tap, and all sorts of things that were just bringing me to tears”, he said.

Now Sasha is seven years old and feels much better. That is why president Obama will always appreciate RNs.

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