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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (6280)3/8/2009 6:17:42 PM
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Huh?

I can see not reading it because its POV gets your dander up. But publications of all persuasions can and do contain useful and accurate information. All of them make mistakes and all of them contain bias, too, but the discriminating reader picks through that. Even publications with bias usually only display it on pet topics. Any publication can give you the facts on matters of fact and matters not politically loaded. Time included.

I will not read any article in Time nor will I purchase the magazine. Their bias is so ridiculous as to make the publication worthless.

Personally, I avoid ANY of these retail publications that have built-in bias whether it is Time or Salon or The American Spectator or whatever. I believe these publications serve only to confuse people who are too lazy or unable to do the work to discover facts for themselves.

I much prefer to read serious publications. An excellent one on the business of health care is "Skin in the Game" by John Hammergren (CEO of McKesson). This is probably the most articulate, straightforward analysis of the healthcare business in America you cant find anywhere. It is a short book, easy read, that addresses the problems and proposes some reasonable approaches to solutions.

But the writers for Time or the NYT or Newsweek simply do not have a sufficient understanding of the issues (whether health care or most any other fiscal matter) to discuss it competently. IMO, of course.
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