It is nice to have some humor while reading about what is going on in the health care reform arena since the subject weighs so heavy on many of our minds and hearts. Excerpt here from Kaiser Health News:
Politico notes that while “Nelson is no longer calling the public plan a ‘deal breaker’… On Wednesday, he said he could not back a public plan that jeopardized the private insurance coverage for 200 million Americans but he will ‘look at any public plan that is presented.’ ‘Those people who are out there attacking us are using the whack-a-mole approach–anyone who sticks their head up and says, ‘I won’t be supporting a single payer plan,’ they whack,’ Nelson said.”
By the way, I did not misspell “Whac-a-Mole” in the title to this post (lest the spelling enthusiasts email me). See Wikipedia entry here which says “[t]he object of the game is to force the individual moles back into their holes by hitting them directly on the head with the mallet, thereby adding to the player’s score. The more quickly this is done the higher the final score.” (There really couldn’t be a better analogy applied here. )
On a more serious note, don’t miss this Wall Street Journal op-ed by Karl Rove here.