Oh hey blowhards in Congress

Things and people I object to (vis a vis the health care reform "summit" today):

1. People arguing against health care reform, with the conclusion, We have the best health care system in the world. [No, we don't. We have probably the highest quality of care, in a number of top-notch health centers; it's the best health care when and if people can afford the care. Otherwise, we're disgracefully average among developing nations, for a SHITLOAD MORE OF THE COST.]

2. People arguing against health care reform, arguing it costs too much and will raise the deficit, who proceed to rail against cost-cutting measures in medicare, saying, But our seniors won't want their benefits slashed. It's partisan hack-ery; it's pandering; it's hypocritical; it implies that every dollar on medicare is a dollar well-spent.

3. Equally ignorant/partisan Democrats.

4. John McCain.

5. People who have good health care, with comprehensive coverage, who say that people who lack health insurance should start health savings accounts. If someone makes $20.00/hr, how much of that do you someone can set aside into a HSA? What if the person gets cancer? What about this person's children?

6. People who think medical malpractice reforms will magically cure health care of its ills. [No, it won't. States, like CA, who have adopted reforms, are seeing absurd increases in premiums.]


OH HEY LEGISLATORS: HEALTH CARE REFORM NEEDS TO HAPPEN, INCREMENTAL APPROACHES DON'T WORK. OH, AND YOU SUCK.

I have a new rule: no one in congress gets health care until the 30+ million people in this country without health care get it.

Great, problem solved.