Americans want their cake. They want a fork to eat with. But don’t tell them they can’t have seconds. Cuz then you’re just being mean. Or worse, “violating their rights.”
On the other hand, the feds seem to have more daddy issues than Carrie Prejean. I can’t decide who’s ticked me off more this morning: voters, the elected elite or marketing reps who can’t return phone calls. (I know one way big carriers can cut costs ... but that’s another story.)
But I’m getting ahead of myself here.
A new AP poll shows Americans love the idea of a public health care plan that competes with the private carriers. But, when they hear the rest of the story – that the feds will also influence the medical care they receive – they change their minds faster than Geithner on Wall Street.
Bottom line, Americans want it both ways. And it makes about as much sense as my son getting sent to the principal’s office last month, then scribbling out his wish list to Santa as soon as he gets home.
Then we have the recent federal study this week that stirred nearly everyone into a frenzy with its declaration that maybe we don’t need so many mammograms after all. This study – which, for the most part, simply reinterpreted existing data – declared that women don’t need the life-saving exams until they’re 50. And those self exams simply aren’t necessary.
I don’t know about you, but its sounds like the best argument I’ve heard yet for keeping the suits in the beltway, and out of our exam rooms.