Choose Your Bureaucratic Poison

Here we go again. Reform of the health care system in the United States is not possible. The same old bromides ring forth as they did in the late 1940s, in the mid-1960s, and again in the early 1990s. The health insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical profession in this country have a deathlock on reform. Ben Sargent hits on a basic truth: bureaucrats exist in government health agencies, but bureaucrats also exist in the private health industry. In the end, the basic truth of the matter is — Don't get sick. If this is (fair & balanced) pessimism, so be it.

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"Bureaucrats: Government v, Health Insurance Varieties"
By Ben Sargent

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[Ben Sargent drew editorial cartoons regularly for the Austin American-Statesman (1974-2009). Sargent now contributes a cartoon to the Sunday editorial page. His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. Sargent was born in Amarillo, Texas, into a newspaper family. He learned the printing trade from age twelve and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at fourteen. He attended Amarillo College and received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. Sargent won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982. He has also received awards from Women in Communications, Inc., Common Cause of Texas, and Cox Newspapers. He is the author of Texas Statehouse Blues (1980) and Big Brother Blues (1984).]

Copyright © 2009 Ben Sargent/Austin American-Statesman

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