Health Care

It's such an awkard debate here in the US about health care. People are throwing insults around, like "socialism"....ooooooh scary.

First of all most republicans seem to think socialism and communism is the same thing. Actually most Americans seem to think that.
Dictionary.com explains socialism as "a theory or system of social
organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control
of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc.,
in the community as a whole."
And communism as "a system of social organization in which all
economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state
dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party."

I saw the daily show with Jon Stewart (comedy news show) where they brought up the made up "death panels". They made the point that of course the government shouldn't get to decide if someone would be allowed to live or die. Such a great decision should be where it is now: in the hands of corporate insurance companies.....

I think that says it all!