Last week FemiSex wrote this:

I have said for a long time—way back to the early 90s: tax our health care benefits, and use that money to insure all players. Buying a private plan for you or your family must be reasonable in price! Yes, mandate coverage, and subsidize it for those who are too poor. This is a massive part of the fix.

Oh hear us centrists, please. A small easily digested bill. NO public “option.” Tax our benefits—a surefire way to keep spending in check and the only Fair way to treat Americans who work for themselves.

This week it seems as though David Leonhardt is starting to understand this:

If Congress taxes health care, the revenue has a chance of rising with health spending. A health tax will also create an incentive for workers and businesses to slow the growth of health spending — thus reducing the amount of taxes needed to pay the nation’s health bill.

Remember how the press savaged G.W. for suggesting part of the fix was to get consumers to consume less health care? Son of a Nasty, he was, said the press for suggesting that the peeps had any role in this big spending mess that is health care. But Obama says it and suddenly the thought glows golden. When Obama says it David Leonhardt doesn’t have a fit of “why I’ve never” foot-stamping SkipGatesian outrage and instead admits that Americans are part of the problem.

The games the media plays.

This site is adamant against a public plan for many reasons—not the least of which is long-term sustainability.
Also, and this is a biggy:
Americans deserve better than to be hoodwinked into socialized care. If we are to get socialized medicine we ought be told by Obama that this is his ultimate goal—a Public Socialized Plan. If as a whole, Americans want this that is a different story. But to trick us, to lie to us and say the only sacrifice his gutting of Heath Care as we know it will require of Americans is having to “give up paying for things that don’t make them healthier.”

That, my friends, is the Mother of All Political Lies!!!!

Economists are coming out of the woodwork saying we have no way to pay for Obama's HC plan....and that is now, with the population as it currently stands and works.
I hated that Bush spent like a drunken sailor with not a plan to pay for it; I hate it more so when one of my own party spends like 20 drunken sailors and lies just as glibly, if not more so about the utlimate costs!

California has been a lesson to Americans for years, leading the way with the Clean Air Act and smoking bans and many other forward thinking ideas. But as its population has shifted so has its ability to sustain many of its generous social programs. It all sounds great until the mortgage is more than a population can support.
Social Security worked like a charm when for every elder collecting, 13 workers were paying into the system. Then we all started to live a lot longer and demographics shifted and lookie what happened. The great social program is wilting. Stuff happens, but I expect smart people to plan for such stuff, not lie to us about what the future will cost us.

I see no reason to set America on a collision course with failure. This site firmly feels that taxing health benefits is the best way to keep people vigilant on expenditures and will not give us a gimme mentality that Obama is setting up. Gimme from the Rich, no sacrifice by me. Such a mentality surely will weaken the fabric of this country. Of that I feel very certain.