by Ryszard Krasowski

Created on: September 26, 2009   Last Updated: September 29, 2009

HOT ISSUE

The health care issue is as hot as a pot with boiling water on the stove. It seems that everybody knows what is going on inside that pot but it also seems that not everybody knows how to cope with that hot subject. People know that they need hot water but the use of it seems to make them wonder. Should they use it to make a cup of tea or a cup of coffee? Should they do laundry or wash dishes? Should they take a risk and check with their fingers how hot it is or should they wait until it cools down?

Discussions on this issue are held everywhere: at the table in living rooms, in bars, restaurants, streets, town halls and in the radio and TV studios. It seems that everybody has something to say and everybody, in their view, is right. But what everybody does not know is the solution to this problem. That is why there are so many controversial opinions on that subject.

Every day many so-called experts are invited to various radio and TV studios to express their point of view but every day the faces and voices of the same people are seen and heard. They keep saying that there are a lot of countries in the world that have better organized health care system. That the US is ranked as thirty seventh in that race. Something has to be done to come closer to the top of that list. But for some strange reason the discussions are between American experts only and they lead to nothing. So why not invite experts from other countries which are obviously better at that issue? Why don't listeners and viewers hear opinions about something that somewhere and somehow works? How do they do it? Why is it working? Are people in these countries happy with what they have? How did they come up with such a plan? How long did it take to introduce to the public such a plan and what was the public opinion on it? Do they like it or they do not like it? If they like it why they like it? Do they want any changes to what they have? Etc., etc., etc. If, for example, in discussions about health care, there are representatives of countries that are ranked higher than US, the listeners to this discussion will learn at least a little bit of geography. People will find out where France, Italy, San Marino, Andorra, Malta, Singapore, Spain, Oman and other twenty eight countries in front of the US in this race for a best health care program are. People from these countries speak English, so everybody in US would understand what is going on.

It seems that America is very ambitious and has

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