If so, will it be financed through higher taxes (seems dubious, given Republicans' misplaced zest for tax cuts); reductions in other government programs (also dubious — if cuts were popular, they'd already have been adopted); or borrowing (the easiest alternative, but embarrassing)?
Alternative universes are really devices for embarrassing the present, as imaginary cultures are used to estrange and unsettle our own.
Either alternative would of itself present a predicament sufficiently embarrassing.
Such scrutiny proved embarrassing for House Republicans in 2009, when they proposed a detailed alternative to the healthcare legislation that Democrats were developing at the time.
In the same way, using the equipment in gynecological departments is and embarrassing for the teenage patient and is not really a feasible alternative because of gynecologists' negative attitude towards GPs.
Cosmetic dentistry can also be utilised as an alternative to metal braces, which may be considered uncomfortable or embarrassing.
How embarrassing is this?
