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...police arrested Richard Terry Young for having a loaded, unlicensed gun in his car near the Portsmouth, N.H., school where Obama would speak hours later about health care. A second man outside that event displayed a gun holstered to his leg. "I wanted people to remember the rights that we have and how quickly we're losing them in this country," William Kostric later told MSNBC. "It doesn't take a genius to see we're traveling down a road at breakneck speed that's towards tyranny." Kostric, who used to live in Arizona, said he voted for Ron Paul...
That reason is our out-of-control, highest-in-the-world, wiggety-wiggety-wack health-care costs. They're gobbling one-sixth of our economy, and without reform they'll devour one-third of our economy by 2040; the average family's annual premiums are on track to exceed $45,000 in 2008 dollars. They're already destroying businesses small and gigantic; unaffordable health-care liabilities are one of the main reasons GM and Chrysler went bust. And since half of all health care is paid for with tax dollars, these exploding costs are a fiscal, as well...
This is why Obama and his budget director Peter Orszag are so eager to "bend the cost curve" for health care - if they don't, it's hard to see how we're going to be able to afford a military or interstate highways or a social safety net or any other government services. Compared to health costs, the Iraq war, the financial bailouts, the stimulus package and even the long-term Social Security shortfall are minuscule fiscal problems. (See a guide to understanding the health-care debate...
President Obama is pushing health-care reform for many reasons, and at different moments during the debate he has focused on different reasons. At times he has emphasized the skyrocketing health costs that are on track to bankrupt the country. At other times he has emphasized the promise of universal coverage. Lately he has shifted to the plight of the insured, who still face exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses and can lose their coverage if they get sick. But he has also tried to assure Americans that they'll be able to keep their existing insurance if they like...
...they tend to drown each other out, especially now that the Administration is spending most of its time batting down wild rumors about death panels, enemies lists, socialized medicine and government takeovers of bank accounts. And only one of those reasons really explains why Obama has made health-care reform - or health-insurance reform, as he's now calling it - his overwhelming priority at a time when the economy still stinks and fossil fuels are still destroying the planet. (See 10 players in health-care reform...