Excuse me, but it's a red herring

It seems that the Obama Administration is, perhaps (there seems to be some mixed messages from the White House) retreating from the issue of government-issued insurance.

Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius stated yesterday that it "was not the essential element" of health care reform.

Please, it is also not the essential element of my objections to Obama's health care proposals.

The biggest problem is that all health care, whether you have government or private health insurance, will be controlled by the government.

And health care will ONLY be controlled by the executive branch of our government.

Neither the Congress nor the courts will have any influence over our health care; the health care commissioner will be "free from judicial review".

Which means we, the people, will have absolutely no control over our health care. We will not be able to change health care through the legislative process nor through appeals through the court system.

I say no, thank you.

PS Do you know what a "red herring" is? It is an idiom expressing something that is trying to divert you from the true issue in an argument.

It comes from the practice of trying to confuse a hound trying to follow the scent of its prey by dragging a dead (red) herring along the trail. Interesting, isn't it?