Health

Tuesday July 25, 2006 - 5:41PM EDT

I just saw the mayor of San Francisco (Gavin Newsom) on TV talk about their new Universal Healthcare plan for the city. The thing that I liked about the interveiw was that he seemed like a straight shooter. No games or tricks in his speech. He told it like it is. This is an experiment that is going to try and solve a huge problem. What I liked most was his emphasis on the point that although people like to harp on how much this is going to cost, the economic advantages of enacting such a plan will outweigh fiscal bellyaching in the begining.  He wanted to emphasize that the system we have now is horrifically ineffecient and that this is an attempt to eliminate that ineffeciency and the waste that comes with it. That anyone harping on the cost right now are being shortsighted.  We will see how this experiment works out. Hopefully it will and other cities around the country will follow the example, maybe even the national government. This goes back to that program I saw on healthcare where someone said that there is a solution there just needs to be someone willing to trying and figure it out. This is at least an attempt. Which is more than you can saw for the non-action of the federal government.