I think you underestimate the amount of unfunded liabilities that just a couple of these amount to. I could look up the exact numbers, but frankly I'm tired right now. I believe Social security alone is upside down to the tune of 55 trillion. That's quite a ways off of non-profit. We cannot keep ignoring history and the failure of societies and programs that time and time again lead to financial disaster.
I think you'll find that most of the people arguing against the current health care bill are completely open to health care reform. Just do it in a way that doesn't involve a public option run by the government. A majority of the country does not want it, they want it kept private with better regulations on price, portability and coverage. And it's not what is in the bill that necessarily scares most of us, it's what it could lead to 5, 10, 20 years from now. Go ahead and propose a bill with a public option, just include iron-clad terms that cannot be altered guaranteeing its dismantling as soon as even the hint of rationing or exploding costs show themselves. If it isn't going to happen, they shouldn't have a problem with those limitations.
And if anyone thinks this debate is heated, just wait until next spring when they try to give every illegal in the country some form of citizenship. The current administration (as well as the last) is dead set on usurping the public majority that has made it clear they want NO citizenship for illegal aliens (yeah I'm still using the term, always will). They've already made it clear they are going to include them in the next census.
