We are ruled by assholes

That’s the only conclusion I can draw when your new health insurance plan is to reduce the number of kids with health insurance.

I swear to God, there are some free market absolutists (see American Enterprise Institute) that will argue and believe the following:

It is better to have kids go without health insurance if the alternative is government-funded insurance. Subsidizing insurance distorts the market and that equates to Socialized medicine.

Or something. In essence, an undisturbed market is more important than reducing the number of sick and/or dead kids (in a relatively inexpensive manner BTW). In Joe’s world, people who believe such things are assholes.