It's not the money

So, the CBO estimate of the Baucus not-a-bill is out, and it well under the President's goal of $900 billion. The CBO even apparently estimates that the bill will reduce the deficit over 10 years.

So, now, Republicans and Conservatives who spent the summer all agog that it would be "too expensive!" are going to have to find some way to spin this. I'm not.

You see, for me it wasn't about the money. If it is right for the Government to do something, then the cost must necessarily be a secondary factor. The same is true of our Combat Operations in the War on Terror and any costs associated with defending our borders. So for me the question was always: Is this something Government should do?

My answer, from the beginning, has been 'no.' First, the Constitution does not grant the authority to tell me what to do about my health and health-care. So, the Government doesn't even have the right to stick it's nose in. Second, once the Government does interfere in health-care, the relationship between State and Citizen fundamentally changes from that of Governed/Government to that of Subject/Ruler. Yes, really.

Any form of Federal Health Care initiative must be killed, and killed soon. It's not the money, it's the morality.