For the purpose of driving down costs, by each participant making itself more efficient. Well, the private companies have failed badly in that. But we’re still propping them up, aren’t we? Tell us about waste and abuse some more, Uncle.
Are you also in favor of letting the *private *companies fail if *they *cannot compete? They can’t, you know.
In any case, New Jersey rips to shreds the argument that demographics are destiny. I know Christie isn’t a Tea Partier, but he’s a lot more conservative than a guy who would normally win a landslide victory in New Jersey. And he did it by governing well, with a big assist from a long history of Democratic corruption in the state.
The same thing can happen at the national level. Next time we get a Republican President, he will be reelected if he does well, and it won’t matter what the demographic makeup of the country is.
If you and I are being chased by a bear, I don’t have to run faster than the bear. I only have to run faster than you. Though it may be fairly argued that Democrats can govern badly, no one believes they govern worse than Republicans.
How dare democrats try to steer the conversation towards actual problems instead of playing along with republican scaremongering of the healthcareocalipse.