It's impossible to turn on the news these days without seeing a highlight of a town hall in Podunk Nowhere, wherein a Senator or Congressperson, beloved by their constituents merely 9 months ago is being darn near run out of town on a rail due to their stance on healthcare reform. While happenings in Podunk Nowhere would not have mattered 100 years ago, in today’s 24 hour global news cycle, Podunk nowhere finds itself squarely positioned in the center of the “places that are important map.”
The valid arguments on both sides of the debate are irrelevant in the midst of screaming matches where paid professionals are inciting crowds to agree on irrelevant jargon such as “We don’t want our country to turn into Nazi Germany.” Shouted by an angry person that looks like someone you can trust, those words, regardless of their validity to the issue, can make it appear that the healthcare proposal is evil and that the Senator hosting the town hall is an SS recruitment officer.
It is a foregone conclusion that some sort of healthcare package will be passed by Congress in the upcoming months. The scaremongering on the part of those paid to sway the town hall debates will impact the quality of that healthcare package in the followin

Without fail, every man, woman, and child in America wants to feel like someone will look after them when they are in need of medical services. Nobody wants to suffer through red tape and rules. When it comes to healthcare for ourselves, we are all guilty of extreme selfishness, and rightly so. When we seek to affect a social bill on the basis of what services we do or do not agree with morally, we seek to create healthcare that serves ourselves but not those who make our healthcare more secure and affordable. In short, Town Hall meetings are ruining healthcare and we will all suffer greatly as a result.

The bill itself will be watered down, ineffective and full of regulations that make healthcare an enormous nightmare for the person in need of its services. The result is that the healthcare reform bill proposed by Democrats and raped beyond recognition by special interest groups acting through puppet Republicans will then, in its implementation, become an albatross around the necks of future Democratic candidates and we will find our lawmakers embroiled for another 40 or more years, in the debate on how to reform failed healthcare reform.

1) Senators and Congressmen whose jobs are less than secure in the upcoming midterm election will either vote a