What's Elevated, Health-Care Provider?

As she spoke, I attempted a sort of simultaneous translation, which is what most of us do now when we hear our political figures, translate from their language to ours. "Access health care" must mean "go to the doctor." But I gave up. Then a thought crossed my mind: Maybe we're supposed to give up! Maybe we're supposed to be struck dumb, hypnotized by words and phrases that are aimed not at making things clearer but making them more obscure and impenetrable. Maybe we're not supposed to understand.

Peggy Noonan, a renowned political pundit, cannot understand government rhetoric and neither can we. Their Orwellian Newspeak is intended to confuse and mystify us.