by Kristopher Saber

Created on: December 11, 2011   Last Updated: December 13, 2011

Traditionally, cameras aren't allowed in the Supreme court, but this case is different. This is a case that will effect every single American citizen, including illegal immigrants. This case will decide how much taxes we will pay, and will also determine if health care is forced down our throats. So why should the government not show this debate? If the American people want to view how awful and controversial Barack Obama's health care law is, then why shouldn't they?

According to a poll done by USA Today "Nearly three-quarters of Americans, 72%, think television cameras should be allowed into the U.S. Supreme Court when it hears oral arguments in its upcoming review of President Barack Obama's healthcare law." That enough should be justification. If the majority of the American people want to view the case, then why shouldn't they? I thought that America was a country based on the peoples wants, and any action taken by our government should be in the interest of "The people."

So why should the U.S. Supreme Court be scared to televise this event? Are they scared of what reaction American citizens will have if they view it? This isn't just a case that will determine some of the American people, this will affect all of us. If that's the case (no pun intended) then why shouldn't we be able to see what the future entails for us? This case could change America forever.

The concept of socialized medicine has been a debate topic between Democrats and Republicans for years. On one side you have Democrats saying that if an American citizen is injured, how can it be morally right to turn him or her down because they don't have the money to? On the Republicans side, you have the argument that a person should not be forced to have health insurance if he/she doesn't want to. It's pretty much another debate about equality vs freedom, each party taking sides respectively to the order I listed them in. 

If the Supreme Court doesn't allow this to be televised, then that would be an act of censorship by the government, who by the way are supposed to represent that "72%" who want to view it. Not only should this case be allowed to be televised, but future cases as-well. Although the Supreme Court cases can get very brutal, it would be a good policy of freedom that American citizens have been so recently deprived of.

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