Second, have the citizens of every country in Europe, Canada, Japan, and most of the East (and especially Germany, which has the system closest to the ACA) become mindless automatons who allow the state to control every aspect of their lives, and are incapable of a capitalist thought or innovative enterprise, or has the freedom of having guaranteed health care freed them individually, and the corporations they work for, to be more competitive in the global marketplace? Are they rioting in the streets because they can't tolerate the state's imposition on their freedom of when they can get treatment for cancer, or heart attacks, or a broken bones, or because their infant mortality rates have plummeted and their longevity has increased?

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich