Howling Vocalizations That Pass for Dialogue

From an article in The NYT, on Obama's anticipated push this week to get health care reform really moving:

“Under the Obama plan, the vast majority of Americans will pay more to get less — it’s that simple,” Mr. Steele said in a news conference at the National Press Club here.

There is, in fact, no “Obama plan” — the president has yet to endorse any of the approaches being worked on by congressional committees. Still, Mr. Steele said, Democratic proposals would leave Americans with “fewer options and less care, and we still won’t cover all of the uninsured.”

Steele blathering, Steele making no sense at all, Steele repeating the stock 'pubblekin sound bites.

Asked whether the emerging approach, which includes a new government-run plan that would compete with private insurers, constituted socialism, Mr. Steele replied briskly: “Yes. Next question.”

Steele's partial solution?

Although Republicans have issued no single alternative health care proposal, Mr. Steele said there were several steps that could be taken short of the Democrats’ more ambitious approach.

They included posting the costs of all medical tests and procedures on the Internet; simplifying paperwork and reimbursement forms; allowing workers to take insurance plans with them when they change jobs; making it easier for people to buy insurance through professional or consumers’ groups; making it easier to purchase insurance offered in other states; protecting doctors from frivolous lawsuits; and cracking down on abuses by doctors or other health care providers.

Hand over more control to insurers, and deregulate, then allow consumers to make better choices, 'cause, you know, that's worked out so very well.

Steele an asshat.

Followup, Tues. July 21: WaPo's Dana Milbank does a much better job of discussing this than I.