{"id":6770,"date":"2009-11-11T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/11\/camille-paglia-pelosis-healthc.html"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T09:00:16","slug":"camille-paglia-pelosis-healthc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/11\/camille-paglia-pelosis-healthc.html","title":{"rendered":"Camille Paglia: Pelosi’s healthcare bill is a mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the few lefties I would quote in agreement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors! Where to begin? That there are serious deficiencies and injustices in the U.S. healthcare system has been obvious for decades. To bring the poor and vulnerable into the fold has been a high ideal and an urgent goal for most Democrats. But this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare. Holy Hygeia, why can’t my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators? Massively expanding the number of healthcare consumers without making due provision for the production of more healthcare providers means that we’re hurtling toward a staggering logjam of de facto rationing. Steel yourself for the deafening screams from the careerist professional class of limousine liberals when they get stranded for hours in the jammed, jostling anterooms of doctors’ offices. They’ll probably try to hire Caribbean nannies as ringers to do the waiting for them.
\nA second issue souring me on this bill is its failure to include the most common-sense clause to increase competition and drive down prices: portability of health insurance across state lines<\/strong>. What covert business interests is the Democratic leadership protecting by stopping consumers from shopping for policies nationwide? Finally, no healthcare bill is worth the paper it’s printed on when the authors ostentatiously exempt themselves from its rules. The solipsistic members of Congress want us peons to be ground up in the communal machine, while they themselves gambol on in the flowering meadow of their own lavish federal health plan. Hypocrites!
\nAnd why are we even considering so gargantuan a social experiment when the nation is struggling to emerge from a severe recession? It’s as if liberals are starry-eyed dreamers lacking the elementary ability to project or predict the chaotic and destabilizing practical consequences of their utopian fantasies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest. She makes similar points that the right (and I) has been making about the bill. If only the rest of the left had as much commonsense as Paglia, we might actually get real healthcare reform.
\nBTW, I also found her comments about Dawkins to be spot on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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