I will admit it. I am utterly, absolutely, even desolately, confused. What, might you ask, is the source of my vexation? Well, let me lay it all out for you dear readers.

First, we have what we have; namely this big, nasty, swirling mess of HCR capped yesterday by our Not-So-Master-Of-The-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing that there will be a public option inserted in whatever bill makes it to the Senate floor for a vote. Although this is a staggering development, it is not the source of my angst. It is however part of my pain. Specifically, we have before us a proffer by the our Government in the form of a House bill and a nearly completed Senate bill which will provide us with comprehensive, cost effective, high value health-care and at the same time, lower the overall costs of said care AND reduce the rate of growth over time such that the nearly trillion dollar price tag actually saves us money. Yup. This is the plan. Our government, our very own elected representatives that comprise the Congress and the Executive branch are going to do this, all for us. All we need to do is just get out of the way and let the healing and the saving begin and maybe we can pass our time while they work all this out by building new retirement communities all over this great land so as to accommodate all of these people that the government will be saving and helping and keeping out the harms way that is the care my friends and I provide every day. Its going to be grand.

But, this alone is not what I need help dealing with. I got this one covered. Its the combination of this incredible gift of government benevolence and largesse coupled with these headlines:

Swine Flu Vaccination Shortage Forces State To Prioritize Who Gets Vaccination
Demand for Swine Flu Vaccine Rises Amid US Shortage
Swine flu surges in California, but vaccine remains scarce

Health officials have blamed the vaccine shortages on production delays among some of the five manufacturers churning out the swine flu vaccine…

Okay. You get my point.

So here is where my confusion comes in. How is it that no one in the rosters of the punditry, the talking bobble heads on TV, the grandstanding blowhards on the Right or the Left have pointed out this little nugget of pain:

If our government cannot get a vaccine delivered for a disease it knew was coming and had time to prepare and had time to muster its vast resources and bottomless intellect to deal with…if THAT government cannot get a vaccine to us for the damn flu, HOW ON GOD’S EARTH ARE THEY GOING TO COORDINATE A $2 TRILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL HEALTHCARE COLLOSSUS THAT IS OUR MEDICAL SYSTEM?

Seriously. How is this going to happen? I need some help here because unlike Descartes who managed to soothe his angst of not knowing whether he was even alive by resorting to the lifeline of “I Think, Therefore I am…”, I got no lifelines. I just cannot get it. I might be dead. This could all be some pre-10th circle of Hell passage and the winds rustling outside are just the hot breath of Hades and my sailboat is, as we speak being converted to a ferry to take me across the River Charybdis. Or, maybe this is reality and I we are at the point of our story that Gibbon would call ‘The Fall’. I don’t really know.

So, seriously, help to understand this, please.