Reading today's newspaper, I saw something interesting. There was discussion, as has often been the case lately, of the swine flu. The discussion wandered into how there is a shortage of vaccine.

Well, what do you do when you have a shortage of something?

I'll give you a clue. The article said that they were giving priority to children under 19 and pregnant women.

It begins with an R.

It's something that is often brought out as a bugaboo by the right-wing in order to argue against health care reform. Something they claim is a problem in Canada and the UK, but would never happen here unless we socialized our medical system.

What was that word? Oh yeah! Rationing!