Thoughts of things that hit the reef…

Today I want to talk about the current attempts to create a public health care service (PHS) in the United States of America. Like Yin and Yang, Black and White, Republicans and Democrats, Capitalists and Socialists, there are two groups in the discussion around the PHS: The Supporters and the OMG-We-All-Going-To-Die-When-This-Piece-Of-Socialism-Comes-True-Group.

What bothers me, is the way how the discussion is lead. The supporters bring there arguments, why it would be good for the community. E.g. poor people have at least a basic health covering. The opposition however argues against the plan. Their arguments are, you will lose your doctor or this is what the socialists always wanted or an enormous bureaucratic machine would stand between the you and your doctor and the best one you are going to die (see video at the bottom).

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This is about the U.S. President. In the last few month, there was a lot of news covering about him. Of cause this is, because he ran for the Democratic President candidacy and later for U.S. President. He won, he won with a simple concept “Yes we can.” and “Change”. Like every U.S. Presidential Election in recent years, it’s outrunning the previous Election in the aspect of media covering. There are only two real parties and each of them tries to throw as much dirt as possible at the opponent. The days when the political agenda of one candidate was the reason for is election are long over. In to days world, its almost solely about the person. The media want it’s share in it and compete in the segment of “how can we embarrass the other parties candidate at most”. Because the media is not above party lines as they should be, they are first on the front line.

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