Look, it’s just not that hard to understand how socialized health care could look good to people.

If you’re in a sweet spot in the system as it stands right now, it’s the best thing in the world.

If you’re not, it looks just a little different.  OK?  And going on at length about how you should get yourself into the sweet spot, then, you asshole...well, it doesn’t make it look any better.

Weirdly enough, I’ve become much more tolerant of a lot of things over the last few years, and other people’s political views are one of them.  It makes complete sense to me that there would be a large number of people who really think that getting the government even more involved in things would help.  They haven’t yet lost their faith in the government’s ability to do good, and I almost envy them, because that faith would be nice to have sometimes. 

The thing is, I think the battle between government-run and privately-run is missing the point.  The real problem is with the whole way we think about health.  And until we’re ready to look at what we expect out of the system and adjust our expectations to something a little less insane, neither one is going to work.

Because it’s the entire conception of what it means to be healthy that’s fucked.  How we pay for it is a sideshow.

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