I can never thank Bill Frist enough for promoting reasonable awareness and solutions to global health issues.

Today, as part of an illusion to the rest of the world the USA still has that massively polluting industrial-military complex in fact bigger than the one Eisenhower warned would draw wrath of other lands, some outright militarize the healtchcare issue for their own purely partisan or personal ambitions...or to create controversy and sell newsprint or ad space.

Now, even Chicago...the crown of the Democrat ship of State...has been systemically downscaling the very amount of hospitals it even has at all, in fact loathe to want to suggest any going bankrupt be bailed out when absorption by others will do. Clearly, on the partisan puffery people are literally perishing in the streets due to alleged lack of charity healthcare, even Mayor Daley and Illinois Democrats from Durbin to Obama to Governor Blagojevich operate on reality such just isn't the case...but doesn't it sound grand to accuse people who call attention to that racists, elitists, and the like?

Indeed, the drive of some to make the USA under Bush look like its people are basket cases and criminals all waiting to be deployed by Bush against the globe in a big-business power grab need some reigning in.

On the one hand, some, mostly Democrats, will "save" the world if its populations stand with them against Bush, that is, save it from the illusion of Bush having a Roman Empire trample all...that way, you can later say troop reductions in Iraq prove you're protectors of freedom, when all you're doing is "saving" lands from your own illusion, take credit, and hope nobody notices Mid-East and global repercussions of actually leaving Iran and Qaeda to their own devices.

On the other hand, at home you can say that Bush has complexed our diplomacy so that other nations won't trust us until Dems preside, and in the meantime will you all accept little more than government-owned housing and government-run healthcare until the day, if ever, while expanding such housing globally Dems figure out how to get foreign business and leaders to trust us enough again to trade or invest or hire with our people...regardless of population composition.

In that vein, like inventing "sanctuary cities" just so the natural reaction will be to suspect immigrants set up in America through such cities, in effect also creating an entire non-native diversity of population which non-Conservatives label "criminals" while having audacity to offer to "save" from such suspicion (which otherwise would not exist) if they toe the Democrat rhetoric lines, much of the healthcare debate focuses on basic if largely latent human fears of mortality and very little on actual needs and progress on actual needs.

Again, I thank Bill Frist for bringing sage and sober skills to an important issue sans hype, fear, and gross exaggeration.