meaningful health care refore can't happen without direct government involvement? excuse me?

While I can accept health care reform, I don't understand why Howard Dean thinks it can't happen without direct government involvement. What kind of ego must this guy have? I understand that he was once an actual doctor, but he sold that soul to politics years ago, or he'd understand what I'm talking about. Besides, he's the head of the DNC. He's not actually in the group of buffoons making up this policy. Yeah, I'm talking about the likes of you, "the outrage displayed at town meetings is not necessarily representative of the American public", Arlen Specter. Yeah, well Arlen, then again, maybe it is. All I know for sure is it isn't all generated from right wing radio talk show hosts, like our liberal friends want to believe. I haven't listened to one of those radio programs in at least a decade because the hosts aren't much higher than you on my credibility scale, and I'm still not a happy camper. Let's not assume, either, that the democratic party holds some monopoly on bufoonery. Politicians from both sides of the political aisle are equally capable of finding loopholes in the most idiot-proof of processes.

I'm sorry, but what do a bunch of kiss ass politicians know about health care? Who stepped up and knighted them the experts? What have they butted their fat asses into where it didn't belong that they didn't completely fuck up? Welfare? Affirmative action? Social Security? The track record isn't exactly impressive, and yet this guy thinks another huge program can't succeed without the government getting directly involved and....doing what? Not fucking it up? For once? This just in...our political "leaders" aren't qualified to play with themselves, let alone a national health care system. They need to be restricted to basic government functions, and leave the rest to people who know what they're doing.

This is a bit like giving the keys to your brand new Ferrari to your 16 year old neighbor who just totalled three other cars. Why would you do that? Health care reform may or may not work, but it stands a much better chance the farther it can distance itself from a bunch of washed up trial lawyers and political schmoozers.