FIRST KILL ALL THE LAWYERS

I'm not naive or so wrapped up in any kind of conservatism to think that our health system is in good shape, or think that perhaps there is a better way. But I don't think the Dems have the answer either.

With that in mind, Ann Coulter's column addresses things medical, but she gets my Paragraph of the Week award (for a couple of graphs. Hey, this is my blog) ... to wit:

"The only "crisis" in health care in this country is that doctors are paid too little. (Also they've come up with nothing to help that poor Dennis Kucinich.)"

Ms Coulter goes on to note:

"Citing the Rand Corp., the Times noted that doctors in the U.S. "earn two to three times as much as they do in other industrialized countries." American doctors earn about $200,000 to $300,000 a year, while European doctors make $60,000 to $120,000. Why, that's barely enough for Muslim doctors in Britain to buy plastic explosives to blow up airplanes!

"How much does Pinch Sulzberger (owner of the NYT) make for driving The New York Times stock to an all-time low? Probably a lot more than your podiatrist."

Here's the good part:

"In college, my roommate was in the chemistry lab Friday and Saturday nights while I was dancing on tables at the Chapter House. A few years later, she was working 20-hour days as a resident at Mount Sinai doing liver transplants while I was frequenting popular Upper East Side drinking establishments. She was going to Johns Hopkins for yet more medical training while I was skiing and following the Grateful Dead. Now she vacations in places like Rwanda and Darfur with Doctors Without Borders while I'm going to Paris.

"Has anyone else noticed the nonexistence of a charitable organization known as "Lawyers Without Borders"?

"She makes $380 for an emergency appendectomy, or one-ten-thousandth of what John Edwards made suing doctors like her, and one-fourth of what John Edwards' hairdresser makes for a single shag cut.

Edwards made $30 million bringing nonsense lawsuits based on junk science against doctors. To defend themselves from parasites like Edwards, doctors now pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical malpractice insurance every year."

Next time you're feeling ill, call Hillary or John, and see what happens.