Monday, July 25, 2011
Inept
Watching our inept Congress, I am reminded of the old lady who told my buddy Crooks why she had stopped voting. "I don't want to encourage them." No lie! I may stop myself. Except for Bernie Sanders, who is there to admire? We used to have quite a few statesmen in Congress, a few decades ago. Now it's idiots and ideologues.
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Bernie is great. I hear him on Thom Hartmann's radio show (Sirius satellite radio) every week.
I would add Dennis Kucinich as one of the good guys.
You are too kind, Charles. I would say that the Congress is worse than inept. I would call the various factions in it criminal for (1) holding the country hostage with a demand for the gutting of Social Security and Medicare, and (2) allowing such a ransom demand to proceed just as if it were any other proposal. Where is the real outrage? I have heard many Democratic congressmen hem and haw when they were asked if they would allow Social Security and Medicare to be on the table in any bargaining discussions.
This does not even get into the whole issue of Obama and his apparent willingness to undercut the two social programs that have worked well for decades.
As a physician, I can say with certainty that turning Medicare into a voucher system would be a catastrophe for everyone: the patients, the hospitals, and the physicians.
The elderly are essentially uninsurable. But the vast majority of them will come to the hospital anyway when they are sick. Patients will amass enormous debt and simply will not be able to pay. Hospitals will not receive payment and will lay off more employees. Physicians will have to take care of the elderly for free in the same way that we do now for so-called "self-pay" patients (the uninsured).
All of this is purely insane. But the teabaggers do not live in reality anyway, so what can we expect?
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