"If you want the government to get into health care, demand it at the state level, but not the federal level."
Stupid idea. The whole reason a national healthcare plan works is by reducing cost through volume.
This is why Canada etc can afford it, and the U.S. cannot. It's called: military spending.
Historically, no nation that has EVER existed has EVER been able to take care of it's domestic and hold a military empire together over the long term. Rome, Britian, Spain, France, etc... They all tried it, and they all gave up when their economies went bust.
Domestic spending is not a static function. It's a curve that depends on everything from population, to the kind of things you can do on your land, to what kind of eduction is required to maximise utility for the populace. i.e. If domestic spending was a straight line, we could all grow up illiterate farmers and would be able to fly the space shuttle.
The root problem for the right here is that it has no historical cognoscence, and thus can be convinced of ANYTHING (wars for corporate profit, etc), as long as they are thrown a bone occasionally (don't let women use contraception or something else retarded).
The right is again pathelogically wrong on just about every issue, and will never correct its basic mistakes (visualize a thirsty man standing next to a poison well, having a 5 second memory). He will get sick, over and over and over and over.
