It is unfortunate that Ms. Sarah Palin had handled the issue of Health Insurance Reform in ungraceful manner, such as calling it “Death Panel.” As she is likely to run for 2012 Presidential Election, the way she handled the public issue in this thoughtless way puzzles me. Public should expect far more from her than the way she handled this issue. She should have made public statements in far more mature, responsible, well informed, thoughtful, and honest ways, using proper, decent language, with her heart rooted on improving public wellbeing. This attitude is what public must expect to see from a potential presidential candidate of this country.
Another disappointment is, some public actually buying, believing this kind of silly statement, and media creating some kind of shock effect out of it and stirring public opinion. Despite numerous corrections of this false statement via media over time, it is absurd that this kind of statement still grabs public attention, seemingly giving her some political gaining.
It would have been great if she had done her best to understand issues and try to make public statements from her heartful consciousness of trying to identify the best for US public, instead of promoting public sensation with words that are wrong.
I do not know whether what I am going to write may sound joking or reasonable to readers. If I were in shoe of President, I may have thought about creating the corresponding, public sensation-provoking Ads in response to Ms. Palin’s case, in order to grab the attention of the very same public that paid attention to Ms. Palin’s back to the stance of “Pro-health care reform”.
If I were President (in dream), I may think about ordering my staffs, pro-healthcare-nonprofit organizations, Hollywood producers, or other supportive entities to make the counteracting, sensation-provoking Ads in response to Ms. Palin’s statement. The Ads may feature several housewives of Ms. Palin-look-alikes, who are perky, spunky, passionate, active, energetic, in Ms. Palin-image-suggesting-outfits of various occasions (e.g., hunting / fishing outfits, hockey/soccer mom, formal office outfit, housewife outfit, gym/workout outfit, etc) in various scenes of moose hunting, fishing, cheering up at children’s sports events, cooking, doing house chores, working at offices, etc.
Then producers of Ads may make these Ms. Palin-look-alikes to make statements similar to below:
“I do (moose) hunting. I love fishing.
I am a busy hockey/soccer mom. I love my kids.
I am a busy housewife. I am a hard working mom.
I am perky, spunky, passionate, active, energetic……
I am honest.
I love, deeply care for my country and people.
I care for truth.”
“What I don’t do” are:
“I don’t lie.
I don’t falsify, distort truth.
I would never harm my country, my people for my personal gains, interests.
I strongly believe that “Health Insurance Reform” is designed for my wellbeing, wellbeing of my family, and wellbeing of all of you.”
“Calling it as “Death Panel” is a complete lie; it is aimed at personal, political gains at the costs of harming public interests. As an honorable citizen of this country, I would never do this kind of thing to my country. Because I dearly love my country, etc……..” And will add more statement of supporting the Reform, such as “Public Health Care Plan is designed to stop the draining of your money into the pockets of the health care industry riches by increasing competition in the industry, improving industry efficiencies, eliminating industry wastes,.….save your money, give better access to better quality health service to all of us, and protect our financial security. Health care reform is about protecting us from “Harms’ Way” !
(There could be various versions of this kind of Ad; housewives’ version, male version, grandpas and grandmas’ versions, and kids versions, depending on the preference / target viewers of entities/organizations that produce this kind of Ads).
What I would really like to see in this kind of Ads are to clarify the fundamental relationship between (a) the healthcare / insurance industry’s misconduct in their business, (b) their cover-ups, their decades-long lobby activities in Washington to protect Govt laws and rules that have allowed their business practices, and (c) how “Public all together” have been massively losing to the industry’s scheme over decades. As the industry has assigned roughly six lobbyists to each one of over 500 congressmen to continuously garner their usual business, this nature of the industry should be well communicated to general public to make them understand what’s is the fundamental nature of all these mumble and bumble.
Does this sound silly ???? Or reasonable ????
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