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Really? Government is designing a policy intended to result in lower quality of care? Why would that be the goal? About the only reason you'd want to intentionally deliver bad health care would be to increase corporate profits. But wait! The Democrats are "anti-business" according to Mr. Johnson so that can't be it.^{[notes 1]}

Now, you could say that it will result in lower quality of care, or that quality of care wasn't considered and is hurt as a by product and these would be rational arguments. However, to claim that the bill's purpose is lower quality of care is some combination of childish, ludicrous, and insane.

Shame on us for letting politicians get away with such a puerile level of discourse. Shame on the politicians for indulging us. And shame on political commentators for accepting it.

Ron Johnson, the corpratist Tea Partier running against one of the more independent and possibly the staunchest defender of Classical Liberal values--which is what the Tea Party claims to be based on^{[notes 2]}--is making a lot of headway. And like many politicians, he's an idiot. Or at least plays one on TV.

Notes

1. ↑ I'll add that in any case it's a strained and tenuous argument.
2. ↑ It's an unfortunate quirk of etymology that the term classical liberalism, though not entirely congruent with modern conservatism, is none-the-less largely in opposition to "modern liberalism".