21) Statistics

Title: Healthcare  – truthfulpolitics.com

Summary: Truthfulpolitics.com is a non-partisan website that was designed to inform voters, and promoted voting for the 2008 election. The majority of information presented is statistics to assure a type of non-partisan neutrality. The statistics have been compiled with the purpose of reflecting the current status of the health care system.

Topic: Should the Obama administration attempt to  convert the United States to a single-payer health care system?
Category: Citizen. Witness.

What is it? Image. Website designed to inform and educate voters from a non-partisan viewpoint.
Publication Information: Created to inform voters for the 2008 election.
Author: unknown
Location: http://truthfulpolitics.com/healthcare.php
Accessed: Feb. 24, 2009. 1:30 p.m.

Support:

truthfulpolitics.com
World Health Organization
cia.gov
Truthfulpolitics.com was designed to educate voters in a non-partisan format, and that is why they primarily deliver statistics. The website contains useful information on a wide-array of topics that are of interest to voters including: health care, government spending, taxes, and others. Truthfulpoltics.com has a mixed amount of transparency. The website does a good job of linking to other  sources, such as the World Health Organization and information provided by the CIA. But it lacks transparency in its own authorship and creation.

Audience and Agenda:
Truthfulpolitics.com was created prior to the 2008 Presidential Election because of the lack of education and awareness by voters on political issues. The website is helpful and informative, but it does not receive much web traffic. The problem with the site is that it lacks creation transparency. The website does not reveal who created the site or why it was created, which takes away from its usefulness and legitimacy.

Usefulness:
Truthfulpolitics.com presents statistics on the topic of health care in a non-partisan manner, but the information shows the need for reform. The website presents the following information: The United States has the highest infant mortality rate of any other industrialized nation; the World Health Oragnization has ranked the United States health care system 37th in the world; The United States is the only wealthy industrialized nation that has not converted to a form of Universal Health Care; however, we spend the most money on health care (per capita) than any other country in the world. The source does a good job of presenting the facts, and letting the viewer make up his or her own mind on the issue.

Works cited:
truthfulpolitics.com
cia.gov
wikipedia.org
google.com
Google Images

For other online Citizen sources check out…
19) Closed-Door Meetings
11) Brad Warthen’s Blog
4) Two Schools of Thought

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