IN MY SHOES: “I’m A News Junkie – And I Still Don’t Understand Healthcare Proposals”
In a commentary for The Washington Times, Lanny J. Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton, throws his hands up in frustration at the gobbledygook coming out of Congress and the White House about the continually shape-shifting goals of, and strategies to achieve, healthcare “reform”:
I read two or three newspapers a day (that means real paper newspapers, the ones you touch and feel and turn to the "jump" page from the front page). I occasionally check the Internet. I read columns and the New Yorker and other wonkish publications. And at night, unlike normal, well-grounded people, I turn on the TV over dinner, and I watch the political cable-TV programs on CNN, MSNBC and Fox.
So I am not normal - I am a news and politics junkie. My point, and I don't mean to seem vain or patronizing, is that I am likely to be better informed than the average American just because I am such a junkie.
And yet ... I need help!!!
I know very little, and understand less, about what all these health care bills being debated in Congress ... will or will not do, how much they will cost, who benefits and who pays, and most important, how they will affect me and my family and the nation's health care system.
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