Madville Times @ KELO: Zaniya's Failure of Vision

The Madville Times's first policy post at KELOLand.com is up for your enjoyment! Here's an excerpt before bed:

Tweaking the status quo would be fine if the health care system were toodling merrily along with just a few minor problems. But thousands of working South Dakotans unable to afford health insurance, half of all bankruptcies stemming from medical bills, and an American Indian population with a life expectancy of 56 aren't minor problems. The status quo of smiling insurance agents making big profits off disease and injury isn't working. We need radical health care reform. The Zaniya Project Task Force had a chance to propose it, to spark a conversation about a substantive issue that might drown out the repeat of foolishness about the Wiese lawsuit and more abortion legislation that we're in for this winter. Instead, the task force mostly punted.

Oh well. There's always the 2009 session....

Read the full essay here... and stay tuned for more Zaniya coverage! Up next -- the Zaniya comments, both attributed and the more juicy unattributed!