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Comparative Stupidity

Does anybody think the Founding Fathers designed our government to lurch from one manufactured crisis to another?  Did the Founding Fathers ever imagine Americans would be suffering crisis-fatigue or policy-fatigue?  Did the Founding Fathers ever think Congress would be more despised than used-car salesmen?

As stupid as all that is — and, it is — there is something else that is equally hard to understand, believe it or not, and that is . . .  drum roll, please . . . healthcare costs.

Your first homework assignment is to read this excellent article in Time magazine http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/  

Your second homework assignment is to explain the logic of it to me . . . please!