Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.

Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.