This nation has been trained over the past decades to believe that, regardless of real need, that health care at someone else's expense is an inalienable right.

The fact that the author of this article selected and printed that quote, without apparently seeing the slightest hint of irony, shows how deeply this is ingrained.

This appeared to me to be a very reasonable cost-savings attempt, an absolute maximum of $10 - $30 a month in premiums for families with two or more children, with those families below an income level that is twice the poverty level being completely excused from such premiums.

Yet to hear people talk you would think that people were going to be thrown out of emergency rooms with their arteries squirting. Or at least have to give up internet access.

BTW, looks like the article has sunk behind another one of those goddam registration barriers. Now I wish I'd quoted more of it.