Health Care BS

As Betsy points out, most of Barack Obama’s effusions are content free. He speaks in bromides. Nowhere is this more evident than in his “positions” regarding health care.

Obama’s web site includes a page entitled Creating a Health Care System that Works that begins by repeating debunked myths involving the uninsured and medical bankruptcies, then quickly moves to a list of priorities so trite that they defy parody. Among the courageous, ground-breaking initiatives he proposes are the following:

“Fostering Healthy Communities”: Hey, why didn’t I think of that!

“Encouraging Medical Information Technology”: Hmm … looks suspiciously like a Bush initiative from two years ago.

“Empowering Health Care Consumers with Hospital Report Cards”: Ah, Senator, this is already in place.

“Protecting Our Children from Lead Poisoning”: Next, he’ll pledge to defeat polio.

“Fighting AIDS Worldwide”: Try to stay focused here, Senator.

As a health care reformer, Obama has much in common Clyde Crashcup. For those unfamiliar with this character from The Alvin Show, Clyde was an inventor whose brilliant creations had already been invented (e.g. baseball and the telephone). Obama’s contributions to health care reform would to appear be equally original.