If you want to win a war, you must do one of two things:

1. Fight swiftly and efficiently and win before your opponent can fight back.
2. Fight slowly and quietly and have more patience and stamina than your opponent.

Obama evidently could do neither, and his party will suffer greatly for it.

For once, I would like for someone to stand up and say, “I want to drastically lower income taxes. It will result in a net loss of Federal tax revenue, and the politicians will just have to operate the government with less money. Deal with it.”

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
– James Madison

While it’s absolutely true that a single-payer healthcare system in America would prove disastrous (while certainly being praised in its failure from everyone in favor of it), it can in no way be claimed that our current system is anything less than a disaster itself. The only real benefit the current system has in its favor is that it is run (mostly) by the private sector.

But the illogical nature of full coverage in healthcare makes it wasteful and unsustainable. Insurance is supposed to protect us from the unlikely, not the inevitable. Full coverage discourages the use of bargain hunting, a keystone of capitalism. In a system where there is no bargain shopping, there will be no competition. Prices will go up in perpetuity, which is precisely what we are trying to avoid in a single-payer system.

Sure, the federal government shouldn’t be involved in your healthcare, but we’ll still have rising healthcare costs. If you want to fix that, I suggest getting a high deductible “emergency” policy, and a Health Savings Account, then call around and find the cheapest doctor in town. Hunt for bargains, ask what things cost, and spend wisely — because it’s your money on the line now.

What more could you want?