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Decades ago the American auto industry was feverishly reconverting their tank and machine gun operations back to the production of automobiles. Between 1940 and 1945, the American automobile industry produced $29 billion dollars worth of military equipment to defeat Germany and Japan and at war’s end the big three of the industry, GM, Ford And Chrysler, were gearing up to become the biggest and most profitable companies the world had ever seen. Their dominance and success became a staple of the American economy, but just yesterday, the top execs from these same three corporations, came a courting to the American taxpayer to help keep them afloat.

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There is word going around that all the hype around the youth vote didn't live up to expectations on Election Day. One article from US News mentions:

"All the post-election talk about how students and younger voters went for President-elect Barack Obama can't hide this fact from their elders: The AARP vote was Obama's biggest. "Contrary to what many may believe, an analysis of exit polling shows that 50+ voters were the core of Obama's winning coalition, delivering more votes for the president-elect than any other age demographic," AARP told us this morning."

The claims rejecting the idea that this was a watershed election for youth involvement, demonstrates both shortsightedness and an even shorter memory.

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No one ever said this was going to be easy. These words would be familiar to Teddy Roosevelt, the President who first attempted to bring drastic change to American healthcare. The change that has come to fruition since Teddy's first attempt at comprehensive reform has been largely incremental in nature, less than complete and wrought with compromise. Undoubtedly, this is partially a result of the political process we have at work for better or worse. Read more

It has been a busy time for us here at SHOUTAmerica.  Last week we wrapped up our inaugural SHOUTAmerica Healthcare Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tennessee and we are proud to say it was both a successful and a powerful event.  The number of student government representatives who attended and their level of involvement is a sign of good things to come for this young organization and for the future of healthcare. 

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There is a feeling that the well of optimism which nurtured us millennials for much of our youth is drying up as housing prices fall and gas prices soar. Did I forget to mention that the polar bears are going extinct and resurgent Russia just thumbed its nose at NATO in the Republic of Georgia? Needless to say, the relative prosperity and peace that we couldn't help but take for granted seems to be more of a project than the norm these days, and the last thing we need is another major issue to add to our generation's to-do list. Read more