🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <RICKS.93Mar25170838@luke.luke.nrl.navy.mil> ricks@luke.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Schumeyer) writes:

[bitching and moaning about the health task force not publishing all
their discussions in the NY Times every day]

>Ok, I may be exaggerating to make a point, but I don't think it is a good
>idea to hide what is going on.  The health care reform proposals will
>obviously be important to everyone.  People are interested, they want to
>know what will be proposed because it will affect them.  Does the fact
>that I question the need for this covert activity make me a conservative
>whiner?  Are you suggesting that it is ok for the President/CoPresident
>to make a habit of secrecy because we don't need to know?  (Note that we 
>are talking about domestic policy, not military strategy.)

So what?  The key point here is that we're not talking about a secret
plan that is intended to remain a secret.  We're talking about a plan
that's going to be published.  Do you think that every single
conversation held by anyone in government should be published?

Frankly, HRC is doing what I would do, namely rounding up a lot of
people (maybe too many -- 500 is a lot just to try to agree when to
have lunch, never mind what to do about health care), and trying to
come up with a plan.  Given the vast amount of criticizing, lobbying,
etc etc etc that's certain to arise no matter what plan is released, I
can certainly understand not coming out with all the preliminary
debates.  It's not as though the thing is going to be put in place
instantly by royal order once it's published.  Frankly, I think
cutting the total debate time is a merciful act.

  -- David Wright, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.  Waltham, MA
     wright@hicomb.hi.com  ::  These are my opinions, not necessarily 
     Hitachi's, though they are the opinions of all right-thinking people