Can we all take a moment for a mocking chuckle at the hard right thinktankazoids? Jesse Taylor has an entertaining take on Ramesh Ponnuru's plan for expanding health insurance.

This is quite literally a plan to get more people insured. It is also quite literally a plan to get more people insured by giving them something worthless and calling it insurance. Everyone in America can be a millionaire if a million dollars would buy you a bottle of Coke, but it doesn’t mean that you’ve made any progress. This is what I never quite get about Republican healthcare proposals - it would be nice if they could at least propose something which had a payoff, however marginal, contradictory or unsustainable. Instead, this is a system which would ensure that virtually everyone except the super-wealthy found themselves covered by high-deductible catastrophic insurance which would be useless in the 95% of cases in which one would normally use insurance, meaning that healthcare would get drastically more expensive.

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