Letting Fear Rule Your Health Care
Letting fear rule our Health Care really comes down to a matter of choice, do I let fear rule my decisions or do I open my heart and mind and help change takes it’s course.
Health Care reform will not cause the end of the world, or the end of our country as we know it even if a public option is included in the bill. Everyone agrees that the system is inadequate, and that change is needed. But, as with most political debates the emotion quotient on the Health Care debate is rather lacking.
Like any other issue it needs to be debated by all sides and the more ideas into the pot the better, but emotion needs to stay out of it. It is the driving force behind all the trouble with the Health Care debate.
Heated disputes brought about by fear, rarely come to any fruitful outcome. Outshouting or insulting your opponent really doesn’t change their mind or make them see your point any more clearer. It’s more likely that it will make them angry too and react in a similar manner, which usually comes to nothing good. In the end in order to come to some decision both sides will have to calm down and listen to each other anyway. So, why not start that way and avoid all the anger and hostility and wasted energy on all sides and work together with the common goal of coming up with something better than what we have now.
Let’s check our emotions at the door and then debate the issues. Make a list of the things that you want to change or not change about health care and forward it on to your representative, or go to the town meeting and present your case, without emotion into it. Everyone has a different idea about what Health Care should be like, but participation in a debate does not guarantee everyone’s ideas will be included in the final product. If we start off the process with the acceptance of that knowledge, than we are way ahead of the game and will move forward much faster. Fear and anger do not make for a better world and it will not make for better Health Care.
Any major change to a system is difficult but there is no need to make it more difficult than it is.
