More health care reform

I did not hear the president's speech last night. However, I heard part of an interview with him on Nightline. During that interview he said that he is very interested in changing the way health care is delivered in the United States. I found that to be a very clarifying comment. It really gets down to the crux of this whole health care reform issue. And it depresses me so much that half the country is okay with that.

Honestly, who is he (a lawyer and politician) to tell doctors how they should deliver their product. It is not the role of government to do that. Congress needs to back off and find another way to deal with people who cannot afford their own medical care (i.e., insurance reform, healthy lifestyles, tort reform, etc.).

If they do pass this huge, sweeping, reform bill, then someone needs to write a law that puts the American Medical Association in charge of reforming the legal profession.

Are sports life?

As if there were any doubt left about whether sports have become way to important in our society, get a load of the conversation I heard on the radio this morning. The morning host and the sports caster were arguing about the fact that Tony Romo has a new girlfriend. If you don't know, Romo dumped Jessica Simpson just two months ago and he is now apparently seeing another attractive, blond, semi-celebrity.

The sports guy was upset that this will be a big distraction to Romo and the team here at the start of a new season. The host felt like Romo has the right to a private life. Duh.

With all the junk going on in our world that needs to be newsworthy and that people need to talk about and deal with, and these guys think its important to talk about Tony Romo's love life. As if it matters to anything going on in the real world. We have so lost it as a society.