Finally...

I mentioned last week that my goal was to cover a harder new story. I think I successfully achieved that goal this week. National health insurance is such an interesting issue that I was actually wondering how far people involved were in passing legislation. It turns out, the United States is farther than you'd think. Already, 60% of health care in the U.S., over $3,000 per capita in 2002, is a public expenditure. Dr. Oliver Fein was on the more popular side, because he didn't really have a reason for why people wouldn't want this passed. He did mention an increase in taxes, though. His presentation was extremely interesting in general, though. I have two to three pages of notes solely on what he was talking about in his slides (he had a Q&A later). The only problem of actually gettinng the story was the fact that it was raining. Every walk becomes longer when it rains, especially when you're wearing nice clothes. When I got back to class and started to write and record, I quickly found that my wrap was too long and needed to be cut. After I did that, it was still too long, but I didn't have to cut that one. That's why today I was so appreciative of my team. It would've been easy to say go cut the wrap down, and it's something I'm going to be working on in the future, but my team supported me and allowed me to keep my length. My goal to improve this week was to find a better news story instead of a feature and my goal for next week is to come in with a better length.