A "remedy" for the surplus he inherited? What an asinine comment. Surplus is not a malady requiring remedy unless you are cross-eyed. Furthermore it was exactly Bush's mismanaged tax policies and high-end coddling that started this house of cards going into thermal meltdown by taking the dampers off.

The arguments for health-care reform as necessary to the economic rehabilitation are not strained at all. Just look at the average costs of health care as a proportion of family income. How stupid can you get to not see the relationship?


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