I’d just like to say this about that

Kevin Drum notes that Ezra Klein agrees with David Brooks about something):

Ezra Klein, after a full day of prostate blogging yesterday, says today that David Brooks is right when it comes to the big picture in healthcare policy:

He correctly identifies the central reality of health care politics, which is that most Americans are basically happy with what they have, but worried about keeping it. Policies that guarantee their futures are quite popular. Policies that radically change their presents are not.

Drum has a ready answer:

Well, if that’s the case, then here’s an idea: expand Medicare (or create a similar program) to cover every person in America under the age of 21. And then let them keep it as they grow older. In ten years everyone under 31 would be covered.

Only someone who has had no experience with Medicare would recommend expanding that miserable excuse for an “aid” agency, with its grotesquely bloated bureaucracy and its outlandishly incompetent bureaucrats. And don’t even get me started about what they consider an appropriate level of care.

Our health care system must be addressed … somehow. I’m no wonk—I don’t know the first thing about it. But can we think up something more effective than Medicare? Please?