What totally blows me away is that the health care bill, though it will surely reduce the number of unemployed, provides for no way to pay for it. I am generall

What totally blows me away is that the health care bill, though it will surely reduce the number of unemployed, provides for no way to pay for it. I am generally against entitlement programs, but I am greatly in favor of laws or speech or rhetoric that make sense. Single payer made sense! It would have provided a means to reduce the ranks of the uninsured and had the ability to lower costs. All these articles, like the Economist's, are just looking at passing the health care bill as a binary decision, where passing it equals progress, and holding it up equals lack of progress. Every bill these days, after it goes through the congressional meat grinder, comes out as a spineless piece of pork, and unless a magazine like the Economist (who ironically refuses to compute the economics of health care in this article), can point this out, then they, in my opinion, have lost the authority to report.