Historic Buzzer Beater
Between top college basketball teams battling it out for the Sweet 16 and the House looking more like the UFC while it debates health care, it’s a great Sunday for competition.
I don’t have a comprehensive understanding of the health care bill, and anyone who claims to, which includes 300 million American citizens and their elected legislative representatives, is a liar.
A lying legislator. Imagine that.
I’m one of those three hundred million Americans who, without knowing what’s behind door #1, is being told I’m buying it.
Does it keep 32 million Americans from having to choose between going broke or going to meet their maker? And if it does, can we pay for it, given that fewer full time employees are now covering the country’s expenses? “Rich” has got to be redefined using a lower bar if the rich are going to foot this bill.
Yet the concept of no cap on benefits is a no-brainer in this day and age, when a single surgery can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And an end to denying insurance to those with pre-existing conditions, like a family whose kid has a congenital defect that will inevitably rear its ugly and expensive head, appeals to anyone with a heart that beats, and more importantly, feels, empathy for his or her neighbors.
So the jury’s out, probably for decades, on whether this bill will make us a better people, or bankrupt us before we can find out.
And circling back to March Madness, with time about to expire, Obama shoots, and nails his game-winner. Some leave the arena ecstatic, others fighting mad, still others confused and sullen. Obama rears his heretofore absent potency, and makes it happen.
A historic buzzer beater, no doubt. With far more at stake than NCAA bragging rights.
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