Paglia: Horrors! Pelosi Care!
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
CAMILLE PAGLIA recognizes FAIL! when she sees it.
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.
Paglia, the only thing worth reading most days at Salon. Investors must know that–Salon Media Group’s stock has been stuck somewhere south of 50 cents (not the rapper) for 2009 and counting–and there’s been speculation about how long the site will survive.
BUT BACK TO PAGLIA: She damns Pelosi with faint praise by comparing her to the fabled hacks–she used the phrase “male speakers”–of the past.
Paglia’s no mouthpiece. Her latest effort demonstrates why she is that rarest of writers today: the principled liberal.
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