The Health Care and Security Act of 1993, championed by President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, was abandoned when the 1994 mid-term elections saw Republicans returned to power in the House and the Senate.
A government shutdown began when President Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress deadlocked on the federal budget. The first shutdown ended on November 19 with a temporary spending bill compromise. Another shutdown began on December 16 when Clinton refused to accept budget cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Republicans, facing public disapproval over their handling of the budget issue, agreed to continuing resolutions on January 6, 1996.
President Clinton signed the Balanced Budget Act designed to balance the national budget by 2002. The legislative package instituted taxpayer relief and changes in federal entitlement programs and provided for health insurance coverage for uninsured children.
Barack Obama (1961– ) is the forty-fourth president of the United States. Before becoming the first African American elected to the nation’s highest office, Obama attended Columbia University and earned a law degree from Harvard. He also worked as a community organizer in Chicago for several years and in 1997 became a member of the Illinois senate. He was elected to the US Senate in 2004, and that same year his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention lifted Obama into the national spotlight. In 2007 he announced his candidacy...
Hillary Clinton (1947– ) is the US secretary of state and a former First Lady and US senator. Hillary Rodham grew up in suburban Illinois and attended Wellesley before earning a law degree at Yale. There she met Bill Clinton, whom she married in 1975. While Bill served as governor of Arkansas, Hillary ran a successful law practice and worked on issues affecting children and the disadvantaged. After Bill’s election to the presidency in 1992, the Clintons set out to reform health care. Bill appointed Hillary head of the Task Force on National...
Cannons blasted and bayonets tore through flesh in America’s worst war, the American Civil War. This war was gruesome for many different reasons. It tore the country apart and created divides that exist to this day.
One of the more ghastly aspects of the war concerned medical practices. Being wounded and sent to the hospital was as much a death sentence as being sent to the front lines. Medical equipment was bulky and hard to move. It was a lower priority than ammunition and food, so the doctors rarely had what...