Buying the Proverbial Pig in a Poke

The curiously-named Gormogons blog has an interesting run-down on the byzantine House bill on health care (H/T: Carol's Closet). You should read the whole thing.

The House bill is a nebulous cloud of lawyerly obfuscation that provides no real idea as to the final architecture of the proposed new health care system. It is, in fact, rather like a road map with eighty percent of the highways marked "Under Construction."

Even so, one can see the basic outline, and there is no doubt that the architects have given short shrift to the importance of individual freedom and fiscal responsibility. This Democrat-dominated Congress is, as I believe I have written elsewhere, the political equivalent of the Academy of Lagado, and although they will undoubtedly fail in their attempt to reduce this pile of excrement to its constituent elements and render it palatable, that does not mean that we may not ultimately be condemned to consume it (to the soothing assurances of our President that any stench is merely imaginary, or the result of racist olfactory glands).