That pesky 6 percent…

To ooohs and aaahhhs, Harry Reid unveiled the ”historic” Senate health care reform bill this evening:

The Democrat’s $849 billion measure is designed to remake the nation’s health care system, relying on cuts in future Medicare spending to cover costs — as well as on higher payroll taxes for the well-to-do and a new levy on patients undergoing elective cosmetic surgery.

Alas, a bit of a snag: we’re cutting Medicare, taxing the rich and the vain and yet somehow we still can’t get 100% of Americans insured: 6% of us will still be without insurance if the Senate bill is passed into law as is.  I don’t know how you justify spending nearly a trillion dollars on health care reform and come up 6% short.

And, as if all of that weren’t enough, there is this wonderful nugget:

He also included a tax on high-value insurance policies, meant to curb the appetite for expensive care.

Why, in the United States of America would our legislators feel it necessary to attempt to “curb the appetite” for really good health care rendered by the best doctors?  Why would that be something that legislators would intend to eradicate? 

None of this makes any sense to me at all.  I’m at a complete loss.

How about you?