Pop quiz. Finish the following sentence:
No factor does more to hold back America’s economic growth and keep American workers from earning as much as they deserve than _________________.
A. the soaring cost of health care [16.5 percent of GDP]
B. the soaring cost of government [31.4 percent of GDP]
If you understand the “greater than/less than” thing, you picked B. But if you are Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, you picked A. In fact, that is how Senator Clinton completed the first sentence of the “Affordable Health Care” section of her “American Dream Initiative,” released yesterday.
Just one sentence into her vision for health care, and I am already disappointed.