Aside from all of the personal reasons that people do or don’t like President Barack Obama, his choice (or willingness, or apparent need) to intervene in systems at the highest levels has caused great consternation.  Conservatives seem to see this as inappropriate or unnecessary government intervention.  Liberals have been more supportive, but mostly about the expansion of services to the under-served, which could have been done in other ways without such large-scale change.  So why take on such large and complex issues?  Why not simply work incrementally with existing programs, as suggested by some in Washington?