all these objections on cost and service levels should be making some impact on the legislators, but sadly none of it seems to be getting through. You would think China asking Obama how he intended to pay for national health care would be all over the news, but it is not.

You would also think the legislators would look at out 10.2% unemployment (or 17.5 U6 number) and figure their major function should be to move the economy, not strangle it.

But, if you expect any of this, you would be wrong. National health care has taken on a life of its own that has nothing to do with the rest of the world. National health care is all about grasshoppers and ants and Rome and fiddlers. We have a political class that is oblivious to the country and the world.

Rick