Lu Powell wrote:
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."


The O's plan is to do something, anything, just do it quickly. He says
the alternative is to do nothing. That's a bit foolish don't you think?
The banking system, The automotive industry, now the healthcare
industry. For the lack of intelligent solutions to our problems, the
plans seem to be throw money at the problems and hope for the best. It's
our hard earned money that's being thrown around. Our government is not
serving us well and people are beginning to wake up to that fact. Mid
term elections should be interesting.