>>No single thing will erase that deficit, but it's also true that if you keep piling on corrupt practices, it won't go away.

Focusing on the corrupt practices is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Reform is needed a decade ago and every month that goes by imposes additional hundreds of millions of dollars of liability on "somebody."

>>If I were a healthy 18 year old forced to buy insurance that I didn't need so that Michelle and hundreds like her can have $300K no- show jobs funded with the money that I had to kick in, I'd be a little skeptical about Obamacare.
>>Wouldn't you?

Yes, but that's not why you are buying insurance. ;-) Apart from that, I agree: I said here 2 years ago that if people stay comfortable with Roosevelt's "worst thing" then the smug lecturing gerontocracy should expect the over-burdened young to revolt against generational theft. The taxation that the oldsters expect to impose on the young will be far worse that anything that caused tea to be thrown in the harbor.