As the moment when Barack Obama will take over the Presidency of the United States is rapidly approaching, the president-elect is already taking steps to implement the “change” that has been the leitmotif of his 2008 presidential campaign. He has begun to lay the foundations of his term as President, which will primarily consist of efforts to reform the failing health care system. Wanting to reach as many people as possible and to prove that his age is an advantage rather than a sign of lack of experience, he is using a tool that has so far been pretty much ignored by the United States Government – the Internet. Websites have already been used in his campaign, and he will continue to spread the word by using the World Wide Web. Wanting to make the people feel involved in reforming not only the health care system but the United States themselves, the president-elect is employing his website, www.change.gov, to ask people for advice and ideas regarding solutions to reform the current health care system, which has proven time and time again to be inefficient, costly and which has left millions of people, million of American citizens, uninsured.

In the words of Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s transition team spokeswoman, “Every American is feeling the pressure of high health costs and lack of quality care, and we feel it's important to engage them in the process of reform. Change starts from the ground up, and we believe that's true on critical issues like healthcare reform as well.” Obama has promised during his campaign that he will bring health insurances to the millions of uninsured, and also that he will allocate $50 billion to put all the health records in the United States in electronic format.