I’m not a politically-oriented person. I try to avoid politics as much as I can. But I’m fired up when it comes to health care debate.
A Prayer for Universal Health Care
However, this whole health care reform debacle is frustrating the hell out of me. Republicans have no interest in reforming health care, except to block any progress towards universal coverage, while some Democrats don’t have the spine to stand up to special interests groups and lobbyists from threatened health insurance companies. Most of the so-called debates on mainstream media go on tangent and degenerate into name-calling (”socialists”, “fascists”), racism, and outright lying. And then there’s Rep. Joe “Lyin’ Wilson and the useless Baucus bill which is not even worth the paper it’s printed on. And it just goes on, and on, and on, and on…
Meanwhile, millions of Americans either have no health insurance or are under-insured.
But what frustrates me the most is that the mainstream media gives more airtime (and print space) to the insane and ignorant people — politicians, celebrities, and radical