# Dancing on the grave of health care "reform" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 3, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487 "2010-02-03T04:17:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 810
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487/810 "2010-03-22T07:21:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Few things in this world are simultaneously funny and terrifying, but suggestions of fiscal responsibility by Republicans come pretty damn close. Remember Newt Gingrich and the Contract With America? Look it up sometime and see what the Republicans did once they were free of fifty years of Democratic domination in Congress. And then consider that much of Republican expenditure is on top of that which has already been mandated by previous Democratic presidents and congresses. Helll, Republicans could not raise expenses an iota on their own and they would still increase hugely each year just because of Democratic programs already in place. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “Competition”, you say? Private insurance will only go away if government offers us something better. > > Yee-haw, buckaroo, that’s free enterprise at work! _Sigh_ No it isn’t dumbass. In free enterprise, companies have to make a profit to stay in business. The government is under no such constraint. I can’t believe you are actually this stupid. Please tell me you’re just responding reflexively and without thinking it through…Oh, wait, that’s pretty much what liberals are known for anyway, isn’t it? 😃 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dancing-on-the-grave-of-health-care-reform/527487)._