This letter is not necessarily in response to a previous writer, but more so aimed at the overall talk across campus. When the topic arises, some students simply shy away in fear of being involved in an argument, while others intentionally instigate a debate for the simple purpose of an enjoyable altercation.

Besides the medical students and pharmacy students on the VA campus, the ETSU student body is unqualified to make a judgment as to what the solution to health care really is. This is the wicked truth.

I’m not saying we should silence ourselves and stay out of the debate. On the contrary, we should educate ourselves further.

In short, students should stop quoting every random poll they have heard on the news, avoid the idealogical corners we often hide in, and stop believing that our party is the correct one.

The worst mistake anyone can ever make is to believe that all the “good” guys are on one side of the fence.

The Democrats are right that health care has issues, but the Republicans are also correct that the current bill is going to tax our country further into recession.

If this issue were as simple as all of us young, medically unexperienced, and politically uneducated college students believe it is – don’t you think it would be sitting on President Obama’s desk ready to be signed?

If all of the Ivy League-educated D.C. representatives can’t agree on something, what makes anyone at this school qualified to solve it by themselves?

– Timothy Nave

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