As for Fran's interview with Wolfe Blitzer, she got another free ride on her omitting Carlyle's LifeCare from the WH Lessons Learned report. At least the media is consistent!

And Terry from ElPaso, way to go!

No one wants the federal government in health care. Let's dump all those bums on medicare – what a waste that is! Then the child health care programs need to be axed next. Let their parents pay the bill. Following that, let's get rid of the Food and Drug Administration. We can trust pharmaceutical corporations to be diligent in testing their drugs before they put them on the market. No reason for the fed to get involved in that. Also, all of this student aid to medical students has got to stop! Why should I pay for some lazy student to go to medical school??!! Let those loafers work their way through school like I did. Also, the best way to cut down on medical costs is just make it against the law to sue a physician, insurance company, or hospital. The market can handle that. People will just go to doctors they trust, and the others will have to find a new way to make a living. Also, why require kids to be vaccinated before they go to school. If kids start getting sick, parents can pay for the vaccinations themselves. Also, municipal rescue and ambulance services are a waste! I've never called an ambulance in my life, and I don't plan to. If I need to go to the hospital my wife can drive me. Why should I pay for some guy who hit his thumb with a hammer be carried to the hospital in luxury accompanied by two trained paramedics and a trained driver? This gimme gimme gimme attitude has got to stop

Her agency is one of the biggest wastes of government spending in American history.

We already have redundant agencies in place...all we need is to do is shift existing resources, not increase government spending and create another massive beauracy.

Hear that free-thinkers? ^ Now thats classy!

The report is nonsense in the same way an officer coming across a huge traffic accident simply writes "it's an unprecedented disaster" in his report?

As for the future of disaster response, the private sector is where it's at. During the California wildfires, the super rich had trucks show up and spray fire retardant on their property. During Katrina hospital giant HCA hired helicopters to ferry out patients from their for-profit facilities. Sovereign Deed will keep any citizen safe from harm for a fee. Their service includes air evacuation if necessary.

Open your eyes to more than apparent incivility on a comment board. There is real, actual incivility in the way people are cared for in times of disaster. That it gets covered up in a fat report might bother some people. For others its time to look away.

It is obvious that CNN delights in peddling this antagonistic nonsense. These threads are truly a disservice to decency and thoughtful analysis. Hence, I will never again visit the CNN tickers. It simply is not worth the time to try to raise the bar. The bottom-feeders can have it all and choke on their own vomit. I've seen more class from junkyard dogs.

Here's a challenge for you, spend 48 hours in a dead hospital, one with water four feet up the first floor. You don't have to be a patient, how about an employee. Then a year or two later, try to evacuate a Gulf Coast Hospital days before a then record hurricane. I did both, which makes me one of the few people in America to actually read Fran's sorry tome otherwise known as the White House "Lessons Learned" report. As a past hospital disaster chair, I can assure her report qualifies as a non-investigation. A few hero stories are interspersed with "it was an unprecedented disaster".

You can call me whatever you want politically, but I strongly believe both Democrats and Republicans gorge too much at the campaign money trough. That a concerned citizen can't get their question answered after a year and half doesn't speak well of our "responsive" democracy.

CNN's articles are obviously not proofread. I find mistakes on a regular basis.

I tried posting about an apostrophe error last week, but CNN wouldn't post it. That was bad enough, but to make matters worse, they didn't even go back and fix the error.

Good riddance – she made a mockery of the position with some of her "educated" remarks, none of which proved correct!

Look how the gubment runs everything else, iraq, fema, social security, remember how our infrastructure isnt up to code, etc,etc,etc. Thats why we dont want gubment running healthcare.

Good Riddance !

Impeachment is currently our only solution.

Now that Carlyle lines up to buy huge nursing home provider, ManorCare, the question is distinctly relevant. If Carlyle can fail patients in one of twenty one LTAC's in a time of disaster, what can they do with 550 mostly nursing home facilities?

Responsive government is needed, certainly more than the level Fran brought to the table.