Some Thoughts on Palin

( Which you can skip if you like )

OMG I thought they were joking.

I've been seeing this around for a while.  I'll put the quote here, emphasis mine:

(From an article about Texas leading the nation in number of people with no health insurance.)

But the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)

"So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime," Mr. Goodman said. "The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.

"So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved."

I thought it was a joke.  Nobody could seriously propose this, so people must be joking about a McCain adviser, you know, saying something stupid and heartless about redefining the problem "out of existence."

I was wrong.  It's a direct quote attributed to this individual in The Dallas Morning News.  

( So here's the overtly political part )

Now, excuse me, but I have to go fit my jawbone back into place and wrap it tightly.  I think I sprained something when I figured out that this proposal was actually serious.  Compression, ice and elevation; that's the ticket.