I have a question, ‘If my car needs breaks and it will cost me $600, why it make sense to have my car destroyed, and buy a new one? Why not fix the breaks? Congresses fix for healthcare is similar, some people aren’t covered, so let’s reform everyone’s coverage. If those breaks are bad, let’s fix that transmission ans the repair that engine.

What is wrong with you people?

So let me get this straight, Indigo. Because your son is currently between jobs, you want:

- the rest of us to have our medical treatments subject to approval by a government bureaucrat who has the job becuase he wasn’t sharp enough to land a spot at the DMV.

- the mother of all deficits, which will impoverish not only us, but future generations. Oh, and by the way, that will also make sure your son has a harder time landing a job.

- rationed health care, with wait times for routine tests measured in weeks and months, like in Canada and the UK.

- and in a few short years, you can have that bureaucrat calling you in to tell you how it’s your duty to hurry up and die already, because, you know, Congress really needs all your Social Security money to buy themselves another new private plane or something.

Yeah, that makes sense. And you want to know what’s wrong with us???

The long answer is to look elsewhere for savings. My first suggestion would be tort reform, both by patients and their ambulance-chasing lawyers and providers having enormous advantage over patients in grievances. Then look to other reforms, like how the FDA approves drugs. There is simply no reasonable argument that it’s being cautious, since many of the drugs not approved by the FDA are used in socialist-medicine countries years before the FDA moves off the dime. The average drug now costs nearly $1B before it’s ever approved. That’s obscene, and directly attributable to the FDA, bureaucrats and politicians.

There are other ways to lower medical costs, too, but that would be a good start.

For decades the socialists have been able to protect their indefensible positions by shouting (with occasional violence). Now they have to show their real colors and defend the indefensible the only way they can, by violence first.

So much for “teachable moments”.