is this the future...
of healthcare in Amerika?

When the President of the United States holds a news conference and announces that "in the event of an outbreak of Avian flu" the military might be called upon to quarantine a portion of the population, it smacks less of a "what if" statement than a warning. You don't go making statements with this sort of flip out factor attached, unless something is already brewing and you need to start easing everyone into it. The potential for this actually happening is much more frightening to me than the prospect of another terror attack. Maybe we need to start screening those who travel into the US from abroad a bit better, like China did with the SARS situation a few years ago and protect ourselves that way, rather than letting people and goods from an infected part of the world stroll in casually as they do now. That might be a better tact than isolating huge portions of our own population to control any incidents of infection. I'm beginning to sometimes wonder if King George really has our best interests in mind...

pearls before swine...