This past Friday night on Bill Moyers Journal, I watched the most educational conversation I have heard in a single place to date on the current healthcare debate we are trying to have in this country.

Personally I find many similarities between this debate and the less publicly mentioned Employee Free Choice Act debate that is still brewing quietly in the back rooms of Congress and our national mainstream media empire. One thing I find very similar are the opponent arguments, which are biased towards the industry. The corporations. And the fact that both debates are tied to employment, and the current standard of living for the most vulnerable of our citizens.

The show consisted of two segments on the healthcare debate, and both were very informative. It's been clear to me for some time that what seems to be holding back the tide of citizen support for single-payer is their, well, ignorance on the construct of our current system, how and why it is broken, and most importantly, why it is not sustainable. Not only economically, but morally as well.

The very fact that the opposition even has our good President confusing the issue with false excuses about "service disruptions", great complexity to change and even having us believe that, although admitting the system is broken, somehow it is not so broken that we can't more or less leave it in place while we make a longer term transition to public healthcare, is nothing short of disingenuous. This was an argument I was having trouble with myself until I watched this program. They explained it all with a matter-of-fact clarity, along with some apparent amusement at the state of our national ignorance on what most of the opposition simply scares us into believing merely with the word "socialism".

This is definitely one case (watching this show) where the truth may set you free!

Watch it here: