Obama's healthcare horror

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Obama's aggressive endorsement of a healthcare plan that does not even exist yet, except in five competing, fluctuating drafts, makes Washington seem like Cloud Cuckoo Land.

The president is promoting the most colossal, brazen bait-and-switch operation since the Bush administration snookered the country into invading Iraq with apocalyptic visions of mushroom clouds over American cities.

You can keep your doctor; you can keep your insurance, if you're happy with it, Obama keeps assuring us in soothing, lullaby tones.

Oh, really? And what if my doctor is not the one appointed by the new government medical boards for ruling on my access to tests and specialists?

And what if my insurance company goes belly up because of undercutting by its government-bankrolled competitor?

Face it: Virtually all nationalized health systems, neither nourished nor updated by profit-driven private investment, eventually lead to rationing.

I just don't get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill, in three weeks?

And why such an abject failure by the Obama administration to present the issues to the public in a rational, detailed, informational way?

The U.S. is gigantic; many of our states are bigger than whole European nations.

The bureaucracy required to institute and manage a nationalized health system here would be Byzantine beyond belief and would vampirically absorb whatever savings Obama thinks could be made.

And the transition period would be a nightmare of red tape and mammoth screw-ups, which we can ill afford with a faltering economy.

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