TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH, MAYBE – AT 9:01 P.M. ET:  The following news report from The Hill should fill us all with socialist pride as the advent of Obamacare approaches.  After all that talk, and after all those pages, we get this:

The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured.

Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool program insist it will run out of money before Jan. 1, 2014. That’s when the program sunsets and health plans can no longer discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.

Administration officials insist they can make changes to the program to ensure it lasts until 2014, and that it may not have to turn away sick people. Officials said the administration could also consider reducing benefits under the program, or redistributing funds between state pools. But they acknowledged turning some people away was also a possibility.

COMMENT:  Let's see if I understand this:  A program designed to make sure all Americans are covered may have to turn away desperately sick people, even though the cost of the program – some $5-billion – is a drop in the bucket of our national health invoice. 

Nothing like a job well done.  The founders, whose work we celebrate this weekend, must be wondering somewhere what we did with their country.

July 2, 2010