OPM to Run Our Health Care????

If you are wondering whatever happened to that big Democratic agreement on the government health care bill that Harry Reid announced the other day-so am I. Maybe he doesn't have one after all. Now the word is that Hapless Harry is proposing that health care plans be administered by the Office of Personnel Management.

For those that don't know, OPM is sort of like the human resources department of the federal government. They oversee the health care plans of government and retired government employees. But to say that this outfit is equipped to take on the health care of the whole population is an absurd idea-sort of akin to handing over all the FBI cases over to the Bureau of Fish and Wildlife.

But then again, we are talking about Harry Reid. If that is true, I would venture that the distinguished senator from Nevada is acting like a man who has spent too much time in the Las Vegas casinos and is trying desperately to cover his losses.

And who is the head of OPM in the Obama Administration? That would be one John Barry-former aide to Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and until his nomination to head OPM, the director of..........(drum roll, please)

the National Zoo!!




That's right, folks. If this story is true, Harry Reid wants to have the former director of the National Zoo run health care insurance for you and me and 299,999,998other folks.


Pass the Tylenol.