While it's always fun to mock some of the self-involved egomaniacs in Washington (or Alaska), the tone that the health care debate has taken is doing this country a disservice. While pundits and politicians hammer away a catchphrases like "death panel" or "socialism", nobody seems to be actually talking about the policy, what it needs to do, and (more importantly) what else needs to be done to fix the health care issue in America.

These Town Halls are usually filled with people who don't know the whole story yelling at people who haven't even figured out exactly what story they want to tell. The current health care plan being floated around includes no tort reform, something which most people agree needs to happen. Critics of the plan have no real counter-solution. Most people agree that we need to do something about health care but nobody has a real plan.

It's time that we get leaders in the fields of medical, health care, and public policy together to actually discuss what's going on and try to find out a solution that will keep the most people happy. If that means we end up taking just a step or two in the right direction rather than going 100% into one groups idea of a "solution", so be it.

Health care in America needs to be fixed and these town halls and the current national debate isn't going to get us anywhere.

Although that bring me to another point, liberals really need to get off of the "racism" angle. Bill Maher looked absolutely ridiculous when he tried to boil Obama's opposition down to the fact that they don't like black people. Not only is that kind of attack dismissive and condescending but, even if it's true, it doesn't help. I don't think I've ever heard of a time when someone was called racist and suddenly realized the error of their ways. If anything, it will just make people more defensive.

The worst part about the media today is that everyone seems so quick to choose sides that they overlook what's actually going on. They hit the talking points and hammer away at their opponents' arguments but rarely, if ever, do they actually look at the subject at hand and discuss it on its merits.

Sadly, the media is in need of reform as much as the health care industry is.