Here’s your possible Christmas gift from Congress: more government wrapped in a mockery of problem-solving legislation.  This is otherwise known as the healthcare bill.

The problem: there are people without insurance.  Gasp!  Now while that can indeed be an issue, why not just make a bill simply to cover them?  Simply put, that would just make too much sense.

Nope.  Government isn’t truly interested in solving any problems.  That is, they aren’t interested in solving problems other than the problem in that they believe that they don’t have enough power.

The health system does need reformed.  Unfortunately the only true way to solve it has been suggested already and will never occur: make congress and the President operate under the same plans as average citizens.  They’ll be more inclined to repair the system promptly.  Instead, we will see yet another government expansion, more spending, and more bureaucracy.

Unfortunately, unless Congress sees that they’re jobs are threatened more if they do pass this, we’ll find it even more difficult to dismantle a truly oversized government machine.  Merry Christmas!