A Health Care Reform Conundrum

Our discussion of mercury led to such, ahem, heated discussions on our blog that I took the unprecedented step of closing the comments down to finally force a truce. After that, I thought it was time to move on to something more light-hearted… like health care reform.

I’ve been so busy it’s been hard enough just keeping up with my own blog. But someone forwarded me an email that really caught my eye. It’s so dead-on I wish I could take credit for having written it myself.

Here you go:

So let me get this straight…

This health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it and whose members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is dead broke…

What could possibly go wrong?