The healthcare "crisis"

Glenn Reynolds:

Health care policy is suboptimal, but there is no “crisis.” Talk of a “crisis” is just a PR effort to get us to accept a different set of suboptimal policies that are more to the liking of certain interest groups.

Exactly. Any time someone says that we have to do something, as yourself whether it isn't as likely as not that doing something will make things worse rather than better. What the Democrats are proposing is virtually certain to fall into that category...