That should be PAGLIA


"Lu Powell" wrote in message
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Camille Puglia, a noted columnist and Obama supporter wrote in Salon.com
todayhttp://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/...12/town_halls/)

"....There is plenty of blame to go around. Obama's aggressive endorsement
of a healthcare plan that does not even exist yet, except in five
competing, fluctuating drafts, makes Washington seem like Cloud Cuckoo
Land. The president is promoting the most colossal, brazen bait-and-switch
operation since the Bush administration snookered the country into
invading Iraq with apocalyptic visions of mushroom clouds over American
cities.

"You can keep your doctor; you can keep your insurance, if you're happy
with it, Obama keeps assuring us in soothing, lullaby tones. Oh, really?
And what if my doctor is not the one appointed by the new government
medical boards for ruling on my access to tests and specialists? And what
if my insurance company goes belly up because of undercutting by its
government-bankrolled competitor? Face it: Virtually all nationalized
health systems, neither nourished nor updated by profit-driven private
investment, eventually lead to rationing.

"I just don't get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill, in
three weeks? And why such an abject failure by the Obama administration to
present the issues to the public in a rational, detailed, informational
way? The U.SO. is gigantic; many of our states are bigger than whole
European nations. The bureaucracy required to institute and manage a
nationalized health system here would be Byzantine beyond belief and would
vampirically absorb whatever savings Obama thinks could be made. And the
transition period would be a nightmare of red tape and mammoth screw-ups,
which we can ill afford with a faltering economy."