If the government can't handle challenge of the H1N1 swine flu, how can it manage health care?
Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2009 17:13 Written by Carl Golden Friday, 20 November 2009 16:56
Following and attempting to understand the proposed national health care system overhaul currently working its way through the Congress is like trying to solve a 2,000-clue crossword puzzle: No matter how many blanks I fill in, there's hundreds left, not to mention having to go back and erase what I've already done because the horizontal solutions don't comport with the vertical ones.
Each day — or, rather, each news cycle during the day — produces ever greater conflicting points of view over everything from cost to the quality of medical care.
Even as I doggedly stick to the task of trying to grasp the dramatic impact of what President Obama and the Democratic majority in the Congress are attempting, I find it difficult to shake the feeling that a government incapable of managing effectively a program to inoculate people against influenza now wants to assume virtually total control of the entire health care system.