I was on Fox Business Channel’s “Your Questions, Your Money” today. One of my fellow talking heads was none other than Congressman (and perennial presidential candidate) Dennis Kucinich.
With so many articulate, high-powered brains talking about healthcare reform these days, it’s refreshing to debate someone like the former Boy Mayor from Cleveland. He’s so deeply entrenched in Kumbaya fantasyland that it’s really the next best thing to the Daily Show. Except that it’s not funny.
Mr. Kucinich tried to convey his message of a healthcare system that was paid and provided for by the federal government – but wasn’t run by the government. Um, right.
He also wanted to make it very clear that he wasn’t for “socialism,” but rather for a national healthcare system that ran like a “non-profit. Welcome to Kucinichcare via “non-profitism.”
It’s an interesting rhetorical finesse – but isn’t a system that’s run by the government minus any free-market incentives well, socialism?
Maybe Mr. Kucinich should introduce a bill called “the Non-Profitism Manifesto?”
Video shortly.
With so many articulate, high-powered brains talking about healthcare reform these days, it’s refreshing to debate someone like the former Boy Mayor from Cleveland. He’s so deeply entrenched in Kumbaya fantasyland that it’s really the next best thing to the Daily Show. Except that it’s not funny.
Mr. Kucinich tried to convey his message of a healthcare system that was paid and provided for by the federal government – but wasn’t run by the government. Um, right.
He also wanted to make it very clear that he wasn’t for “socialism,” but rather for a national healthcare system that ran like a “non-profit. Welcome to Kucinichcare via “non-profitism.”
It’s an interesting rhetorical finesse – but isn’t a system that’s run by the government minus any free-market incentives well, socialism?
Maybe Mr. Kucinich should introduce a bill called “the Non-Profitism Manifesto?”
Video shortly.
