Health reform, once more with feeling

I invite you to read this column on Salon.com by Camille Paglia. She is a professor, dissident feminist and Obama supporter who rips the White House over its handling of health-care reform.
Some of you are making assumptions that I agree with those who are storming town hall meetings, and that I oppose any health-care reform. When did I say that?
Here’s my problem: We have at least five separate drafts of health-care reform circulating. The one I have is 1,018 pages long. And we’re being told it has to pass immediately. No one knows what it will do.
As ridiculous as some of the town hall protesters sound, I’ll venture members of Congress don’t know much more about what these bills would do.
In light of this, the people who yell and scream at these meetings seem to be the only sane ones. Health-care reform needs to be taken slowly — at least slowly enough for everyone to read the bill. Then we can debate specifics intelligently.
And as for Nancy Pelosi calling the protesters un-American, she is exactly wrong. Protest, civil disobedience and the like are as American as it gets.