"Republican Sen. John Ensign delivered one of the more curious arguments against a government-run, public health care option during a long and lofty Senate committee debate Tuesday.
People might like it and use it.
Then it would become popular, and too big to fail.
And the government would have to support it.
“Does anyone really believe this Congress will let this government program go away if it has a constituency?”
Ensign asked his colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee.
“To have a large program like this, once it’s started, you’re never going to get rid of it.”