The Health Care Reform debate and passage has me thinking of camels these days. Let's start with the obvious:
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Attributed to Sir Alec Issigonis
Here, of course, the health care reform bill is mutant camel with pork thrown in for the insurance industry, various special state interests and a special deal with abortion foes. The stallion we once strived for, the single payer or public option is gone, replaced by a sturdy, but oddly shaped beast of burden.
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