While it’s dangerous to oversimplify a problem, finding ways to cut through the complexity of difficult challenges and reduce them to their essence can be essential to good decision-making. If we’re going to have a Medicare program, it ought to be modern, not broken.” These simplifications served to clarify the issues at play for his team, prioritize the values he would use to make a decision and communicate his decision to the public. Similarly, when faced with conservative opposition to his reform and expansion of the Medicare, he simplified the issue writing in his autobiography, “I came to make sure the government works. That simple framework-avoiding another depression-subsequently guided his policies regarding the financial crisis, TARP and related programs. His answer clarified the decision I faced: Did I want to be the president overseeing an economic calamity that could be worse than the Great Depression? “In terms of the financial system, we have not seen anything like this since the 1930s, and it could get worse.” “Is this the worst crisis since the Great Depression?” I asked.
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