HEALTH CARE FIASCO.

The fights that are raging in Town Halls over health care across the nation are unnecessary and uncalled for. They are divisive, and they are hurting the images of our communities. The issue must not be used to create misunderstanding between our representatives in Congress and the public, and that any discussion about it must be done in a peaceful and harmonious fashion.

Instead of that, they (Town Hall meetings) have been made to resemble the Vietnam War protests in the 1960s, only this time, they are taking place indoors. However, the atmosphere that is being created is dangerous all the same. A mom or dad goes to a meeting and gets hurt. He or she is bruised all over, all in the name of Health Care proposals that must be left in the hands of the same people that are being pulverized and pushed around, our Congressmen and women.

Of course, the concept of Town Hall meetings is a part of the political process, and they facilitate a forum for ordinary folks to present their cases, to be heard and to get their questions answered. Yet, the meetings that are being held now have been allowed to deteriorate into a market place of arguments and counter arguments.

At such meetings, tempers will flare, naturally, but not to the extent of putting people's lives at risk. Demonstrations of any kind must be vocal and not physical or even violent, as they have turned out to be in many instances. After all, the issue is about health care, and how it can be made to satisfy everybody's health needs; and it must be handled with patience and care. It must not be propelled into being a health care fiasco; at least, not yet.

During the 2008 election campaign, we were promised by Candidate Obama that people will be having the same health care insurance coverage as he did; as a Senator. He was believed, and as a result of their votes, he became President. What ever happened to that promise?

In other words, a blueprint of some sort was fashioned into the minds of the voters, and therefore, they must hold the President accountable to it. To a great number of Americans, something close to his insurance coverage must be extended to everybody.