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380. Don't think of it

By Joel Jacobsen

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If you had told me six months ago that Americans could work themselves up into spittle-spraying rages in defense of their insurance companies, I might not have believed it. Forgive me for doubting you. The New York Times reported that in his Saturday radio address, Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi charged that they - you know, them - wanted to "intrude 'a Washington bureaucrat in the relationship between a doctor and a patient.'" (Just one?) At least he included the word "Washington." In an earlier tryout of the same line, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley forgot the adjective: "What we stand for is to make sure that no bureaucrat gets between the doctor and the patient." Now, how many of the Iowans who cheered that line have ever known what it's like not to have a bureaucrat between themselves and their doctors? I know I've never experienced it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).