Progressives Need to Get the Argument Right

Listening to Ed Shultz yesterday when a caller asked Big Eddie "who's going to police the government when it gets in the health care business?".......and Ed goes off on a long rant about the misdeeds of Haliburton over in Iraq, and how our government uncovered all this waste and fraud by Haliburton, and all this abuse of their contracts blah blah blah....

And I'm thinking...why Ed....why are you going down this road with this caller.....the question was a simple one and it required a simple answer.....who will police the government when it gets into the health care business"??? Simple answer...the government ALREADY IS IN THE HEALTH CARE BUSINESS and it is doing quite well thank you ferreting out abuse and fraud....Medicare and the VA health care systems...two of the best manged, cost effective, and most loved by their clients, health care systems in America...

When someone says they don't want the government in the health care business remind them that it is and it is doing just fine...