I listened to an interesting interview with Newt Gingrich today, and while I rarely agree with him, he did make an interesting point. He suggested that Republicans get much of what they want because they take it in bite-sized chunks. As it were, they eat their loaf one bite at a time. He said Democrats could, and maybe should get what they’re asking for if only they would do it in 5-7 small bills rather than one monster bill. That way, he said, nobody would make much fuss over any of the individual bills. Too bad Dems are trying to eat the entire loaf all at once.
Now, being a “Lib”, I want a completely different health care system than we have now because the current one is utterly amoral. It is focussed purely on what the medical industry “sells”: drugs, visits, procedures. Once upon a time in the golden age of American medicine, doctors saw patients as patients rather than numbers to be gotten through in order to make ones quota. If you ask me, for-profit insurance companies have turned medicine into a business – which it never was before.
I listened to an interesting interview with Newt Gingrich today, and while I rarely agree with him, he did make an interesting point. He suggested that Republicans get much of what they want because they take it in bite-sized chunks. As it were, they eat their loaf one bite at a time. He said Democrats could, and maybe should get what they’re asking for if only they would do it in 5-7 small bills rather than one monster bill. That way, he said, nobody would make much fuss over any of the individual bills. Too bad Dems are trying to eat the entire loaf all at once.
Now, being a “Lib”, I want a completely different health care system than we have now because the current one is utterly amoral. It is focussed purely on what the medical industry “sells”: drugs, visits, procedures. Once upon a time in the golden age of American medicine, doctors saw patients as patients rather than numbers to be gotten through in order to make ones quota. If you ask me, for-profit insurance companies have turned medicine into a business – which it never was before.