Mike Leavitt, the BushCo appointee for both EPA and now the director of the department of Health & Human services published a piece of asinine trash last week lauding Bush's plan as the "better" plan for health care cost relief.
Read here.
I wonder if he would have the balls to post the same article today, as the fallout from Bush's veto will surely haunt the GOP from here to election day and beyond.
The hubris to suggest that families now can get a tax break up to $15,000 dollars to buy health insurance is somehow going to "fix" all of the problems that exist with our for profit system - or even reduce them is beyond anything I can imagine a person with such an important job could say.
He goes on to paint the costs as "too high". What a joke compared what we pay now, individually or as a country for health insurance.
I already have in my mind another picture of caskets, neatly lined up, stretching as far as the eye can see - only these are smaller, and are not draped in flags, but in the tears of parents too poor to save their own children's lives in the richest country in the world.
Mike Leavitt can rot in hell.