Nicholas Kristoff is an Idiot

Today, little Nicky is writing in the NYT about how the government can run health care best.

Health care reform may be defeated this year in part because so many Americans believe the government can’t do anything right and fear that a doctor will come to resemble an I.R.S. agent with a scalpel. Yet the part of America’s health care system that consumers like best is the government-run part.

Fifty-six to 60 percent of people in government-run Medicare rate it a 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale. In contrast, only 40 percent of those enrolled in private insurance rank their plans that high.

It goes on for many more mind-numbing paragraphs.

Nicky, here's the problem with your entire piece:


The government is bankrupt, Nick. Bankrupt. They're a failure. If you allowed, say, Wellpoint, to run a monstrous debt like this, they'd not only provide every operation anyone wanted anywhere, but they'd send people over to your house to make your coffee in the morning, clip your hedges into the shapes of famous French poets and teach your kids thermodynamics. You'd float to your doctor appointments on hovercars and a robot would brush your teeth. Wellpoint would groom your dog and teach your cat to speak Farsi.

$1,600,000,000,000, Nicky. $1.6T. The government has managed to blow an entire forest of paper money into confetti and you think that proves they can handle health care the best.

You're an idiot.