Excerpts of latest column:

I'll Have an EMTALA with Refried Beans, Please

We have a large number of politicians who insist that something must be done about medical care, while disingenuously insisting that thousands die every day as a result of want for it.  Meanwhile, the true but not widely reported fact remains that anyone who requires medical treatment in the US cannot be denied.  This as a result of a law passed in 1986 known as the EMTALA Act.  The act simply states that both hospitals and ambulance providers cannot withhold treatment for any medical emergency, subject to extreme fines per case.

As if all of this is not enough--it was also reported recently that the Government now has designs on limiting  fishing and has also taken an interest at moving into the realm of Internet broadband as well.  The FCC has turned its attention into swiping a large part of the bandwidth in this transmittal realm, which begs the point that we have learned by slow necessity over time --that being--anytime  Progressive Governance turrets its leering gaze into one particular sector--look out!  Something is going to be coddled, which then turns into a squeeze, which then turns into a grip, which then turns into a suffocating embrace of coiled constriction.  Then and only then is the item of interest devoured--headfirst always, and then slowly digested and made a part of the consuming "Authority."

The Statist Python of Constriction

It is the gorgingly unrepentant "Python of Statist Governance."  The bigger it is, the larger its victims.  This can be seen by the recently devoured American car manufacturers.  In addition, and just like the Python, current Government's  hunger knows no lessening of ambition; its capacity to devour is only limited by the size and the climate in effect at the time of consumption.  This is, most likely, why the banks were able to resist and be disgorged by the Python's efforts.  The Insurance Companies seem in a continually coiled dance of enmity with the python.

Never knowing whether they wish to mate or battle with the cunning and yet sloth python, which often seems to hunt only for the thrill of the hunt.  However, the hunting expedition for the elusive Healthcare "Big Game" has always seemed to slip from the Python's coils, perhaps owing to its mammoth proportion of 1/6 th of the largest economy on the planet, in addition to its "current" worldclass standing of quality.

But now, the Python of Governance is ravenous for "the Big Game" and has nearly amassed the numbers that it needs in order to encoil and slowly devour its nearly defenseless prey.  Stopping at nothing to achieve its task by any means necessary.

The US Constitution on Passage of Law

The Democrats' efforts at creatively passing Healthcare and absorbing it while not actually voting would be comical were it not so terrifying.  The "Slaughter Solution" will try to pass the Senate bill along with separate revisions to the bill by voting only on the revisions...

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