Here's an idea for legislation: Limiting the number of miles I may drive my Rolls. Or how about this: Restrictions on the amount of Cristal I can serve on my Lear jet. Maybe a cap on how many homes worth $1 million I am allowed to own. What would any of these bills have in common?

Stupid pointlessness. I have no Rolls, no jets, no home of any kind. They would put limits on things I don't have and am likely to never have .The Cristal is a possibility, but not in the near future; this is how ridiculous suck limits would be.

This is exactly, however, how stupid the talk about rationing health care is. 50 million Americans have as much health care as they own Lear jets: zero. And I am not likely to have either at any time soon. My workplace offers a barely adequate plan, but with child support payments, I cannot afford that plan. It would not offer dental or vision, the two things I actually need (apart from an annual physical, the lack of which was mitigated somewhat by the exams I got when I was hit by a car in December). So talk about health care rationing is, from my point of view, as meaningful as a discussion about the travails of extreme wealth.

When I hear someone like Sen Judd Gregg talking about rationing health care, it angers me so much because those words have no regard for the plight of tens of millions of Americans with no access to health care. How can you ration what people do not have? And when the costs of basic care are skyrocketing — a fact no one argues with; no one — and people are going into bankruptcy over medical issues more than anything else, the most idiotic thing to talk about is rationing. That's the least of our problems.

I have already been rationed out of the system. The health care and insurance industries want nothing to do with me. If I can't afford the premiums, I certainly can't afford the co-pays and other charges that will come my way. What good am I to them if I can't even pay the admission at the front door? The current system is working fine for them; fee-for-service makes billions in profits for the existing medical industry, just like the current bidding-plus-approved-overruns is fabulous for military contractors. Changes that would ensure all Americans and make health care affordable, not just for consumers but the economy as a whole, is an end to the money machine being run by insurance, high-end doctors, drug and pharma, and the other criminal conspirators who are content with 50 million Americans having no health care other than WebMD and emergency treatment.

Ration me? Please. The fuckers have already done that. I'd simply like a seat on the bus; they can keep their damn Rolls.