Just a few days ago President Obama held a press conference centered on the progress Congress is making on national health care reform policies. His hope is to translate these conversations into tangible reality by early this fall. For those of you living in countries in which basic health care is a given you can only imagine what many of us here in the United States are feeling at this crucial point in the health care dialogue. For those of you living in countries with far fewer resources you can also imagine our confusion over what it actually takes to translate wealth into positive, active forces for the greater good of humanity.
What brought some extra attention to this particular press conference were not its contents, but its context. President Obama deliberately planned its public airing for the American public so as not to conflict with a popular television program called