Apparently, health care reform is a pretty big deal right now. We’re hearing opinions about it all over the “news” commentator hours. We could all be socialists, following a Commie Obama down the path of the old USSR. Or, we’ll all be able to afford good health care, depending on whose opinions you subscribe to.

CNN calls it a “confusing and complex” issue in its “What You Need to Know About Health Care Reform” article. It then proceeds to let us know why it’s a hot issue, what Obama has done about it — namely that he came up with a bill — and then lays out what Republicans, Democrats and doctors think of reform, along with all sorts of psuedo-useful information.

Unfortunately, this trend seems endemic to the major news networks. The public is bombarded by fluffy information designed to help them form opinions, but without tools needed to make informed ones.

It turns out this trend is the cornerstone of what media in the United States was formed on. We in the media are supposed to be how the bill could affect most people.

They obviously aren’t going to get their information from the White House, whose health care reform Web page contains the same sort of opinionated gobbledeegook that most of the media are pushing on us.

We want to know more about people in higher income brackets, paying more than people in lower income brackets or what the penalty will be for refusing to carry adequate health insurance. How about where the initial funding is going to come from to kick-start such an ambitious reform?

Instead, what we’re getting is a bunch of bickering talking heads on Capitol Hill doing the same sort of behind-the-scenes political dealing that always seems to leave the rest of us in the dark with an ambivalent press that doesn’t care to cover it.

It’s time to tell the media you demand more.