Is Obama's new Health Care Bill a form of socialism? That depends. What's socialism?

You’re probably wondering, beyond the ephemeral politics, how this new health care bill will function for citizens like you.

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Oh, I don’t have an answer, I just recognize you’re probably wondering it. I wonder it too. Hell, when I heard people discussing the bill I silently wondered if I was supposed to vote. Then I heard someone say it was a bill passed in Congress and thought to myself, “Ohhhhhhh . . . So wait, was I supposed to vote?”

I don’t think I was, but for all I know congress is just a fancy term for sex. (Was this Proposition: Sex? If so I vote YES. Or probably. Well, maybe. I just ate a heavy lunch.) However I do realize now that my rationalization for not voting – “I voted like two weeks ago” – was actually me confusing an Entertainment Weekly “Hottest Women Over 40″ online poll with an election. Still, civic duty is civic duty. Demi Moore, kid. Though this does explain why the EW website wouldn’t accept my voter registration number as User ID.

Look, I don’t know anything about this health care bill. Or about health care. Or about health. What I do know, from my recent experience buying auto insurance, is that worrying about being protected from something that hasn’t happened yet; that may never happen, is a doom n’ gloomy part of adulthood. I prefer my childhood belief that infallibility will protect me from all consequence. So when you ask me what I think of the new health care bill don’t be shocked when I answer, “Who cares? I’m invincible!”

You can insure me against injury and sickness but good luck protecting me from myself.

My name is Ben and I’m highly vincible.