As swine flu spreads around the country, it’s only appropriate that the next political donnybrook may concern health care.Vice President Joseph Biden said a few days ago that for the second 100 days of the administration, “the top of the agenda, the very top, is health care.” Lacing its armor across the field, a group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is airing commercials denouncing (and distorting) President Obama’s health care proposals.
Not to be impolite, but Republicans like Karl Rove and Senator Susan Collins (along with some Democrats) lost credibility on this front when they scolded Mr. Obama a few months ago for proposing stimulus spending on something as frivolous as ... preparations for a flu pandemic. (Note to Senator Collins: You might want to remove from your Senate Web site the February article citing your opposition to pandemic preparation.)
The flu crisis should be a wake-up call, a reminder that one of our vulnerabilities to the possible pandemic is our deeply flawed medical system.
“From SARS to avian flu to the current escalating outbreaks of swine influenza, it has become increasingly clear that we are risking a major catastrophe unless we act to restore the safety net,” noted Deborah Burger, the co-president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.
First, the first thing you know about how ridiculous this is, in the second paragraph, Kristoff believes we should actually take heed of anything Joe Biden says.
Second, because we all know how those other pandemics turned out. Millions dead from SARS. Thousands in firmed from Avian flu. Hundreds of thousands quarantined from MRSA.
Third, I believe Mexico has nationalized health care. How's that working out for them?
Liberals...... Creating problems then not solving them for generations.
Sound like a pack of weatherman having lots of meetings.
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