I'll take the brain surgeon over the nurse, thank you.

I have many opinions and I do my best to gather as much information as possible before really arguing my side but I still concede that they is a very large portion of topics I am completely unqualified to talk about, let alone argue for or against.

I was reading today about Republican concerns over the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) that was part of the health care reform. This board is supposed find ways to lower the costs of Medicare yet Republicans are against this even though its job is to make recommendations on cost cutting that will lower the deficit. They want government to keep its hands out of Medicare? This reminded me of the Republican concerns over the EPA's ruling on green house gas emissions. They claim that this decision should be made by congress not the EPA. This is odd considering the EPA is filled with people whose sole job is to make decisions about the environment while almost 60% of the Senate is comprised of former Lawyers.

If I have a question about why my care won't go I ask a mechanic because he has been trained to fix cars. If I need brain surgery I go to a brain surgeon not a general practitioner because the surgeon has been trained in brain surgery. Politicians should accept their limitations and use the help that is offered by these entities.

With the sheer volume of topics that the legislature has to answer you would think they would welcome some outside help from experts in the field. This would help to make the best decisions since not only are we asking people who have a high degree of understanding on the issue at hand to make a recommendation but we can remove the partisanship that permeates our current political landscape. Just think how much more the US could accomplish if getting elected wasn't the major reason for supporting or opposing legislation. If we just did things the way experts think it should be done.

Forcing important decisions into the hands of a select few who are unqualified to answer those questions does not move us closer to Democracy, it makes us more authoritarian.