Check out this amazing line from RNC chairman Michael Steele this past Friday, via Matt Yglesias, explaining how we don’t need the government to be involved in health care — we just need get the interested people in the room and “do the deal”:
STEELE: So if it’s a cost problem, it’s easy: Get the people in a room who have the most and the most direct impact on cost, and do the deal. Do the deal. It’s not that complicated.
If it’s an access question, people don’t have access to health care, then figure out who they are, and give them access! Hello?! Am I missing something here? If my friend Trevor has access to health care, and I don’t, why do I need to overhaul the entire system so I can get access he already has? why don’t you just focus on me and get me access?
This sounds kind of like Kenan Thompson’s “Fix It!” routine from Saturday Night Live last fall, explaining the solution to the financial crisis. “Take it one step at a time: Identify the problem — fix it! Identify another problem — fix it! Repeat as necessary until it’s all fixed!”
