The problem we're fixing is that too many people think for themselves. That's not part of the master plan, so Obama figures to take care of that for us.
We're now on the brink of gutting the best medical care system in history for the sake of workers between jobs, 20-somethings who think they have better things to spend money on, and a steadily growing number of illegal aliens and their offspring who, we are told, are somehow also "Americans" despite their illegality.
We ought to be using this "crisis" as a teachable moment about how this issue is being framed and what really underlies it. Bad judicial decisions based on a misguided notion of "compassion" have created an absurd situation with our ER facilities being abused to the point of wide insolvency (and Obama's solution is to drain down another $200 billion from hospitals, he tells us). Too many young people are proving they have more self-esteem than self-responsibility. As for the illegal aliens, no one here needs to be told that this is arguably the greatest "systemic risk" our society now faces (other than overt foreign terrorism) and that unless we deal with its enablers, both in government and business, we are going to lose this nation in short order.
If we still had a journalism corps that had any interest in objective reporting the American people might understand how they are being scammed, but instead we're going to get informercials from the White House.
