Last night, the largest legislative bill in my life was passed and I need to say something, anything. If I’m not mistaken, that’s also how we chased the need for health care reform this season; as something, anything. We’ve become the fools Plato refered to that prefer verbal diarrhea of the mouth and political diarrhea of the legislation. We prefer the fool who speaks because he has to say something over the wise man who speaks because he has something to say.
Sure, greater amounts of candy in the Easter basket, or a health care overhaul that gives the gift of health care to all feels great. I fear though it feels great the same way maxing out your credit card feels great. In all seriousness, does anyone really think the same government who couldn’t keep Medicare financially afloat for more than forty years, with people who paid into it for decades and decades, is now going to not only keep Medicare afloat, but another, larger program, a program including thirty million people who haven’t paid into it?
I wonder what national health care bankruptcy will look like? Well, we’ve already got the example of Medicare, forty years, maybe less, and regrettably, we’ll probably know…
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