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Mr. McCain’s Definition of ‘Best Coverage’, Pt.2 – “For the people, of the people & by the people”

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Whenever generalizing an important issue, is should be common sense to convey the accurate meaning as would be understood by the general audience. So if Mr. Post submits that Mr. Obama’s solution to provide health insurance is to ‘raise taxes’, perhaps this his audience is intended to only to reach 10% of our public (and perhaps rightly). That 10% would see a tax increase and already have all of the health insurance they will ever need. But if a reporter wanted to reach 80% of the American population, that statement would be wrong. If a reader could accept that 80% of the Americans earn less than $114,000 a year, then and ethical reporter must mention that almost everyone’s taxes will go down, even so (about $800 lower than Mr. McCain’s proposals are projecting). Let the reader decide, but check the facts, please.

There seems to be a counter-philosophy in our culture that says ‘someone else’s health insurance is not my problem’. There is no law in our land requiring patriotism, but many of us wish there was, sometimes. To Mr. McCain’s credit, both his heart and head were in the right place when he said “To be a patriot is to love your country’s citizens.” When 45.7 million of our fellow Americans are in trouble, we can quickly see who the patriots aren’t (if one subscribes to Mr. McCain’s wisdom). 45.7 million Americans in trouble are our problem. Burn barns, if you will, but don’t try and defend turning your back on 45.7 million of our people without health insurance. There’s a counter-culture that believes government should not regulate its citizens. Something’s amiss here. Just as our nation could not survive without regulating a military to defend itself, neither can our nation survive a sustainable ‘domestic responsibility’ way of life (…provide for the common welfare…) without government regulation.

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