John McCain's 'Underwear Gnome' Plan for American Health Care

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted September 17, 2008.

McCain's plan makes little sense until one grasps that it's designed
to improve Corporate America's bottom line rather than Americans'
health.

There's an episode of the animated show "South Park" in which the
young protagonists stumble upon a netherworld inhabited by gnome-like
creatures whose sole purpose in life is stealing people's dirty
underwear.

Curious, the boys investigate and uncover the underwear thieves'
master plan, which goes like this:

Step 1: Collect Underwear

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Profit!

At first glance, John McCain's health care plan makes about as much
sense. The policy -- typically light on details to avoid getting
tripped up by those pesky factual analyses health care advocates are
always waving around -- is focused on using the "miracle of the free
market" to control costs by giving individuals more choices.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

Find a credible news site, landru.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNet

AlterNet, a project of the non-profit Independent Media Institute, is a
progressive/liberal news and opinion website that was launched in 1998
and claims a readership of over 1.7 million visitors per month.[1]. It
has been described by NPR as a "left-liberal news and opinion site".[2]
It publishes original content as well as journalism from a wide variety
of other sources. AlterNet states that its mission is to "inspire
citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil
liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues."[1]

AlterNet's tagline is "The Mix is the Message."

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/jul/010702.karr.html

4) Alternet -- This independent, left-liberal news and opinion site

--
not too random uselessnet weirdness: