Imagine Dole of Kansas demanding Agricultural Subsidies that are in complete Parity with all other subsidy programs? We could have $10 loaves of bread, and solve everybody's Deflationary Worries in a hurry.

I get fed up with the mantra of Democrats and Republicans alike to confine their discussion of healthcare to the "insurance" coverage. Knock, knock, is there anybody in there . . . health care is not health insurance.

There was a time, in the past, when insurance covered unanticipated surprise expenses. We merely pooled the resources of many so that the individual who needed the resources could get the care that they would otherwise not be able to afford. Then, the health care industry learned, through proactive thinking, that covered members that had regular checkups had fewer catastrophic claims later, thus emerged the coverage of non-catastrophic visits to the doctor.

Now, however, the insurance companies like the notion of abandoning all coverage for the catastrophic events and they simply want to squeeze themselves into the middle between patient and doctor to get a piece of the pie. They are NOT "insurance" companies any more, they are a cancer. Their new role has become nothing more than that of expensive administrator of federal health care expenditures, yet they insist that they are entrepreneurs offering value above and beyond that of a common welfare caseworker sitting behind a desk making determinations of eligibility etc.

In retrospect, Dole's advocacy for Kansas Farmers, seems to pale by comparison to the list of candidates and lobbyists licking their collective chops at the prospect of getting a piece of the Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars that the Feds will spend in the coming years on health care.

Parity might demand that we chant 10 dollar bread, 10 dollar bread, 10 dollar bread . . . 20 dollar cheese, 20 dollar cheese, 20 dollar cheese . . .

The health care stuff should include a component that looks at the cost of service for someone coming off the street saying, "Hey, I was just price-checking XYZ, what do you charge? . . . "