How Dumb Do You Have To Be

to write something like this?

Brown writes that Medicare's "increasing cost must be addressed" and that attempts to do so are "long overdue" as part of any "serious" effort to do something about the long-term national debt. But Ryan's plan is just too stingy, apparently: "As health inflation rises," Brown writes, "the cost of private plans will outgrow the government premium support—and the elderly will be forced to pay ever higher deductibles and co-pays." So Brown agrees that the problem with the current Medicare system is that it puts the public on the hook for ever-rising health care expenses, which are growing faster than we can afford to pay for them. Yet his first complaint about Ryan's plan is that it backs away from that commitment, altering the system in such a way that the federal government doesn't continue to spend on Medicare at a rate that's rising at a dangerous and unsustainable rate. Like many Democrats, Brown seems to be upset that Ryan's plan solves the problem Rep. Ryan intended it to solve.

The problem is that Ryan's plan doesn't even address the real problem.

The real problem, of course, is not the amount the government is spending on health-care, for seniors or anyone else, but the rising cost of health-care in general as part of the GDP. And of course, Ryan's plan does nothing to address that -- it's an insurance company's wet dream that the Republicans want to codify into law.

In reality, the post is a hit-piece on Scott Brown (R-Cosmo), and I probably shouldn't take it seriously, except that it is so butt-numbingly idiotic I had to take a poke at it.