What has to be my favorite comment to reports of Spitzer’s misdeeds comes from the mother of John Cole at Balloon Juice:
Good Lord!
Good Lord!
He was obviously paying too much. What can you possibly do for $5,000 an hour? Surgery. Life-saving surgery performed on me is worth $5,000 an hour.
Good Lord
You know, health care issues are considered to be at the top of the priority list, based on public interest in politicians’ talking points. I’ve commented previously that the cost of care, inflated in part due to inefficiencies in the system, is where I believe the core of the problem is.
So, let’s say that we were to move to a government funded program and, by some miracle, got costs under control.
I can only speculate on how the politicians could use the excess funds to celebrate….