If Liz were Queen

If you missed Matt Taibbi’s article “SICK AND WRONG” that appeared in the September 3 issue of The Rolling Stone, I recommend that you read it now.

” . . .America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It’s become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment — a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn’t be equal to dreaming it up on purpose. The system doesn’t work for anyone. It cheats patients and leaves them to die, denies insurance to 47 million Americans, forces hospitals to spend billions haggling over claims, and systematically bleeds and harasses doctors with the specter of catastrophic litigation. . . .

. . . The cost of all of this to society, in illness and death and lost productivity and a soaring federal deficit and plain old anxiety and anger, is incalculable — and that’s the good news. The bad news is our failed health care system won’t get fixed, because it exists entirely within the confines of yet another failed system: the political entity known as the United States of America. . .”

HERE IS HOW THEY DID IT:

1.  Step one:  Aim Low
2.  Step Two: Gut the Public Option
3.  Step Three:  Pack it with loopholes
4. Step Four:  Provide no leadership
5.  Step Five:  Blow the math

READ THE DETAIL BEHIND EACH OF THESE STEPS IN MATT’S ARTICLE.