I read/listen to/watch to my favorite blog/station and they say that health care reform is communism/a plot of the neocon fascists. Why should I support health care reform?
Media personalities, especially polarizing media personalities, have only one agenda and that is to expand and strengthen their notariety and franchise. They are excellent at accomplishing that goal at any cost, including well structured public policy for the United States. You can always count on media personalities to spew a hot stream of assertions and opinions, but you cannot count on them for facts. The debate about the reform of the U.S. health care system will probably be one of, if not the, most important public policy debates of our lifetime. It will determine the course of health care for us, for our children and for our grandchildren. What is put in place will be in place for decades. I believe it is very important for Americans to be educated about the facts regarding the current health care system and the proposals for new public policy related to health care. I believe that citizens who are armed with the facts can make their own informed decisions about what system they