The American public is right to be suspicious of leadership that will not take immediate and specific action that would reduce an estimated $200 billion dollars from the Nation’s annual medical bill.

http://pacificgatepost.com/2009/09/health-care-what-are-you-not-hearing.html

The administration and legislature are staying away from confronting their friends, and former classmates, in the legal profession.

“To get in at all he must show a talent for abasement–and abasement makes him timorous. Worse, that timorousness is not cured when he succeeds at last. On the contrary, it is made even more tremulous, for what he faces within the gates is a scheme of things made up almost wholly of harsh and unintelligible taboos, and the penalty for violating even the least of them is swift and disastrous… He must harbor exactly the right political enthusiasms and indignations… He must read and like exactly the right books, pamphlets and public journals… Within the boundaries of his curious order he is worse fettered than a monk in a cell. Its obscure conception of propriety, its nebulous notion that this or that is honorable, hampers him in every direction, and very narrowly. What he resigns when he enters, even when he makes his first deprecatory knock at the door, is every right to attack the ideas that happen to prevail within. Such as they are, he must accept them without question. And as they shift and change he must shift and change with them, silently and quickly. To hang back, to challenge and dispute, to preach reforms and revolutions–these are crimes against the brummagem Holy Ghost of the order.”

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