[Mr. Douglas]

You and I are coming from completely different perspectives. Let me use a movie to illustrate.

Remember the last game in Rollerball, the original version? As mayhem continues and bodies are being drug off the track, the Black coach says to the white coach something about “we can do x and still win this game”. To which, the white coach says, “GAME?! This was never meant to be a game!”

I think you are like the first guy and I’m like the latter. My solution was to move to a small farm in central KY and cancel all health insurance the day Obamacare became effective and wait out the collapse. Your solution is to try to work within the system.

To me, the system is dead and we passed the point of this being fixed by a human solution about 15 years ago. The election of Obama just made it painfully obvious. I see the US as a dead country walking. My faith is in Jesus and I’ve abandoned any hope that there is a political solution to our country’s ills. We are, as a nation, getting what we deserve.

As I’ve said since November of 2008, in a democracy, you not only get the government you want. You get the government you deserve. And here we are.

[Ohioan]

Not sure where you get the idea I want to work within the present health care system. I am not in the present system, and was not into it under Clinton or Bush. The Federal Government has no legitimate role in civilian health care; none. Nor do I believe that counting noses in an election can reduce those of us who dissent to effective "bondsmen" to an illegal health care system!

My point in seeking to address the faction that wring their hands over the thought of anyone losing their subsidized health care, goes to an understanding, based on fighting Federal encroachment since the middle of the last century, on how to take charge of the debate.

By starting with an acknowledgement of the strongest point in the opposing argument, you do not concede anything, you simply introduce your answer to that argument in the most effective way possible.

There is not the slightest doubt--the statistical evidence is enormous--that a Federal bureaucracy is unsuited to the allocation of medical care in a socially useful manner--even if it were somehow Constitutional. You give the devil his due, and then systematically destroy him. Allowing a period for those tricked into dependence, to work their way out, is the key to turning public awareness--stripped of the "crisis" panic--back to reality.