Contradiction

clipped from hotair.com It would be an interesting argument - how best to relieve the plight of the poor, improve conditions at emergency rooms, deal with whatever trade-offs, etc. - but that’s not the argument the country has been having. The problem is that the two ideas - help the poor, save money - contradict each other, in a way that runs parallel to the “fatal flaw” in the Obama sales pitch isolated by Ramesh Ponnuru, the contradiction between (my words) shouting in alarm, “This system is an urgent interstellar catastrophe from top to bottom!” and soothingly promising, “Don’t worry, what you’re happy with won’t change, and it won’t cost anyone but the evil rich anything!”