[via White House Photo Stream] There is a metaphor somewhere in this image…

The cost of all of this to society, in illness and death and lost productivity and a soaring federal deficit and plain old anxiety and anger, is incalculable — and that’s the good news. The bad news is our failed health care system won’t get fixed, because it exists entirely within the confines of yet [...]

You pay for insurance on the off-chance that your health fails. Your insurance company takes your money and pays its employees a bonus to cancel your benefits when your health fails. Your health fails – but look at it this way, some lucky drone just won a bonus. (Though he’ll doubtless lose his insurance, too, [...]

“Reform” is also not aspirational, nor hopeful like “Change”. In the meantime, the opposition has their messaging perfected. The Republicans know how to keep it simple and stay on message. In this case keeping it simple means Obama’s plan is socialism. In politics, it matters not that the argument is false, only that it’s believable. [...]

Summation: Three words, well put. (via Brad Blog)