One Man Mowed A Meadow

Doctor Doctor
The Obama administration has sought to ease the shortage. The health care law increases Medicaid’s primary care payment rates in 2013 and 2014. It also includes money to train new primary care doctors, reward them for working in underserved communities and strengthen community health centers.


But the provisions within the law are expected to increase the number of primary care doctors by perhaps 3,000 in the coming decade. Communities around the country need about 45,000. (NYT, 7/28/2012)


An entire article devoted to the growing shortage of doctors and the wondrous efforts of the Obama administration to ease said shortage. Not one word - not one - on the surveys that say that Obamacare is causing enormous numbers of doctors to consider leaving the field. Already in Vermont, with its mad dash for government run health care, doctors are leaving the state and difficulties have arisen in trying to recruit new doctors.


Provisional
A provision most likely to disenfranchise voters is a requirement that people show photo identification to vote. Millions of Americans don’t have these forms of ID, and many can’t easily obtain them, even when states say they’ll offer them free, because getting the documentation to obtain the “free” ID takes time and money. (Charles M. Blow, NYT, 7/27/2012)


Just when RedStateVT thought that it had solved the voter ID issue by suggesting that Obama pay for picture IDs, along comes Blow to tell us it will not work. We are not sure what the problem is, but it sort of sounds like maybe even given free IDs, Blow's constituents don't have the time. How about this then? If you do not want to take even the slightest responsibility for participating in this democracy, then you don't get to vote. Still the best line about Blow's columns (might have been James Taranto): 'They are used as punch lines for other writers.'