This weeks best quote goes out to Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
It is arrogant to imagine that 100 senators are wise enough to reform comprehensively a health care system that constitutes 17 percent of the world’s largest economy and affects 300 million Americans of disparate backgrounds and circumstances
Exactly, especially when a majority of them do not have backgrounds in economics, finance or medicine. The industry knows best. What’s needed is oversight and basic regulation and a few simple rules. Those rules to come in another post shortly.
via On Health Bill, G.O.P.’s Road Is a New Map – NYTimes.com.