This by J. Robert Smith would be a stronger piece if it cut way back on the name-calling, but it raises some interesting points:
Once government-run health care is a fait accompli, all three [Obama, Reid, Pelosi] believe practical minded Americans will switch from outright opposition to trying to "improve" the government-run health care model, similar to what Americans have done for decades with failing public school systems. Pelosi, Obama, and Reid also know that if they can successfully defy the will of the people and impose government-run health care, if they can then prevent the entitlement from being repealed in its early stages, then this massive program will foster dependency, and dependency entrenches entitlement programs, which keep government powerful and keep the advocates of entitlements in power, give or take the odd election, or until an economy crashes (see Greece...
