With people this stupid, we don't deserve good healthcare

Matthew Yglesias: Americans Support Health Reform, Reject Policies to Make Health Reform Workable:

"Despite their misgivings about the bills overall, the poll showed the the public is strongly in favor of some of their key components, such as forbiding insurance companies to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, establishing a health insurance exchange marketplace, prohibiting women from being charged higher premiums and requiring most employers to provide health benefits.

These same respondents, however, demonstrated resistance to making tradeoffs in exchange for these benefits by stating their opposition to paying more taxes, instituting cuts in Medicare spending or being required by law to obtain health coverage."

I blame Republicans for starting this and Democrats for caving. Republicans have sold the lie that all taxes are bad and have made raising taxes a political suicide mission. Democrats have caved and run like little cowards whenever they have been accused of raising taxes and never stopped to explain, in a Jimmy Stewart like fashion, that those taxes went to roads and police and clean water, and all those things that benefit us all.

So now we have a populace that won't tolerate cuts in their government programs as they bash government programs and refuse to pay any more money to keep those programs healthy, or make them better.