[Harry Lime]

I was dropping off a package at a doctors office about a year ago, and had to do a double check at the signs taped to the front counter. One was a 'be sure and set up your next appointment' and next to it a diagram that pretty clearly indicated a monthly checkup. It might have been a simple translation issue, but adding a high frequency check up to the stubbed toes and sniffles seems to be abuse of the system, engendered by some neighborhood doctors themselves.

Everything on the papers headline this morning seemed to read as a 'tax the masses' and ignore the affluent.

I also took the survey that the gov't sent out to gauge the people's desires, and I really wasn't impressed with some of the questions. They would have one unacceptable answer, with the option of another unacceptable answer, and no opportunity to not pick one of them. A clear attempt to construct a mandate to do something that would avoid hurting their power base.