re: You missed the nail and hit your thumb
As for your graph you throw up constantly, 2009 is Bush's deficit. And funny how it stops at 2019, just before health care reform would make or break the economy.
2009 certainly owes much to the stupid Bush bailouts, but the rest of the trend--steadily increasing deficits--is all Democrat. If you count two years of the Democratic Congress as any factor, 2009 gets even more complicated.
If you think "health care reform," which at this point is mostly about massive new government programs, is going to help the deficit, you may be missing something.
If they have brilliant new ideas to lower health care costs, tell them to try it on Medicare first, and see if we can make a dent in the enormous deficit of that program alone.