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Health Insurance vs. Socialized Healthcare, Pt1 -- What Difference?

Health insurance, Socialized medicine – is one totally perfect and the other totally evil? Why? How many of us can give a value answer using sound judgment? I would guess, very few – takes some homework. Enter -- Kevin Freking.  I believe that one of the foremost rules of good journalism is to disseminate value information to promote the greatest understanding with the least amount of confusion. Part of this is to refrain from bias and present a full picture which allows for interpretation based on context, rather then a narrow nitch which obscures the full view.  Kevin Freking of the Associated Press has exercised these precepts of great journalism so well when expounding on a most controversial issue that I thought it more than worth the while to sort it out so we could learn more and appreciate better interpretations of all the rhetoric confronting us every day. One of the more scary subjects to Americans is the prospect of socialized medicine. Why? Because it’s so foreign to us and we may carry a slanted perspective based upon the spin of a non-expert.  While Kevin may not be an expert on health care he has shown himself to be an expert journalist – no slant, no spin – even playing field.  Health insurance - Socialized medicine, health insurance - Socialized medicine?  Here’s understanding.

Kevin starts out this way:  “Call it Obamacare or call it Clintoncare.  But don't call it ‘socialized .medicine’." Don’t believe that either Barack or Hillary are promising to do away with health insurance or institute anything like the universal health coverage offered in Great Britain or Canada. Continuing health insurance is definitely in their proposals.

To be continued…