Universal health care oxymoron

May 2, 2007

Bill Richardson, a politician not in touch with reality:

Medicare should be made available to people 55 and over “¦ Universal health care must be implemented””without creating new bureaucracy.

David Catron can’t stop laughing:

That’s right. He’s talking about a monumental expansion of the federal role in health care, and he thinks he can do it without adding more apparatchiks. He’s apparently been away from D.C. for too long. He has forgotten that an ever-expanding bureaucracy is one of the primary goals of “universal health care.”



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{ 3 comments }

1 Anonymous May 2, 2007 at 10:38 am

This worthless piece of lard can’t stop jetting all over the country in the state taxpayers jet long enough to perfuse his brain.

Yeah, we want THIS guy in the White House.

2 Anonymous May 2, 2007 at 7:36 pm

These politicians with healthcare reform ideas have absolutely NO IDEA what they are talking about.

I am a full-time medical bureaucrat and I can tell you unequivically that most people haven’t the foggiest notion how totally fouled up the bureaucracy is. The politicians have no idea what policies the regulators actually erect to implement the laws passed. The policy makers who run the agencies are completely deluded about how their own employees actually interpret and implement the rules they set down, and even the most cynical and critical providers actually vastly overestimate the degree of actual intelligience and intentionality that lies behind the paper torture to which they are subjected.

The only thing that keeps actual medical care flowing to patients enrolled in these government programs are providers who ignore the regulators and plod on regardless of how much they get punished for doing the right thing, and others who with bubbly misguided optimism think that they are going to figure it out and make it work one day.

Meanwhile the sociopaths who milk the programs providing sham medical care proceed unimpeded because the bureaucracy doesn’t have the courage or energy to call a liar a liar and stop them.

It was a bad day at work. Thank God for anonymous posts.

3 Anonymous May 7, 2007 at 10:19 pm

In the words of P.J. O’Rourke”

“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”

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