Health Care Dilemma…

I have tried to maintain a open mind as I listen to the various arguments on this subject.  As the old saying goes, ‘one can miss the forest because the trees are in the way’. 

 

The population of the country is aging, in the next 10 years a large portion of the baby-boomers will be retired and on fix incomes.  Some or most will require medical care, the cost associated with those requirements will more then likely be paid by family members or the general public. Why? Because most will loose their private healthcare and then go on Medicare.  Cost will continue to raise and over, say a 15 to 20 years of caring for the boomers the health care in this country will be approx 40% of the nations expenditures.

 

What is the fix?

    War, the Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines war as a struggle between opposing
 forces or for a particular end; a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism.  What
I don't read in this clean academic definition of war is the killing of humans by other
humans for mostly unjustifiable reasons, the murder of innocent children before age 10
and leaving grieving mothers and fathers who are not involved in hostility, conflict, or
antagonism.
    Whatever the political position is for advancing war, it is hard to escape the affect;
generations of mental illness, destroyed societies and families, lost lives, and lost
national resources.  I wonder what emotions do the human experience when war comes
into his home in the form of a bomb that causes the building to collapse onto his family
killing all.  I am empathetic towards the 'innocent' that has been classified as collateral
damage.  When advancers of war make up terms like "collateral damage", I judge this as
been an attempt to lessen the horror, pain, and fear that is experienced by those whose
intestines, limbs, brain matter, and blood lay littered and decaying on the ground.
War is not just a clash between humans that volunteered for service; it affects all
humans on matter what mechanism we use to hide from its reality.  The taking of life
because I am angry; who suffers more?  Not the dead.  The living has to live with the
aftermath.
    When I think of war I do not think of the Victories Armies, nor do I think of the
treasure reaped, I think of the pain in the heart of the weeping mother, I think of the
child caught in the middle, I think of the agony in the mind of the father who tries to
make since of it all.  I think of the hate that is destroying the minds of those left to carry
on.  Mostly, I think of the lack of intellectual advancement of mankind.

I was thinking of reasons why the MMA has moved ahead of Boxing in popularity, I concluded that fans of boxing have become frustrated with the Business, and not the Sport, of Boxing and are turning to MMA as an alternative.  The level of competition is exceptional and raw. 

As long the money stream of Boxing out pace MMA, Boxers will not take the leap into MMA.  But, as soon as fighters in MMA generate more money's than Boxers you will see Boxers transitioning into MMA. The question is: Are they able to compete?

   I have tried to watch the cable news coverage of the current political landscape; it seems that all you get is personal opinions from the newscasters instead of unbiased reporting.  Why is it more news worthy for the reporter to give opinions instead of reporting news and allowing the public to form its own opinion?