“Voters should ask themselves a few basic questions to help formulate their views on health care policy. Is it a comforting thought that someone else — anyone else — should be responsible for paying for your health insurance? If so, is it a comforting thought that you must pay for everyone else’s health insurance? The cost of health care is a cause for great concern. If cost is the problem, should you realistically expect that the federal government can be the solution? Or a state government such as California? What is there about the history of the last century or so of government spending that would lead you to believe that the government can control spending on health care — or anything else?” (10/23/06)