http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/18/reinhardt.health.inflation/index.html
"(CNN) -- Watching the angry outbursts at town hall meetings on health reform and the continuing public ambivalence about current efforts to reform our health system almost makes me wish that the reform effort fails. Perhaps Americans need to be taught a basic lesson on the economics of employment-based health insurance before they will feel as smugly secure with it as they do now and before they will stop nitpicking health-reform efforts to death over this or that detail." Since Reagan, it seems to me that hoping for the American public (or even American political elites) to learn some kind of painful lesson from disastrous policy choices seems a lot like being a Cubs fan. The lesson is always going to be learned next year. (Read the posted comments about the article and you get an idea that lots of children were left behind, in our public education system)