I'm sure a prostitue would give a much better massage than your wife, who probably doesn't care how it ends....

The Republican Status Quo is what it is. Democrats get caught with gaudy baubles and half-ass money stings.
Is is because of the basic Victorian obsession of control, or is a mania caused by campaigning hard for Sharia-style behavior codes and beating the Gun-Ho drum about Lady Liberty?
I think the people who sell it best, that is the 'moral decline' and anti-'moral relativism (As if morality were anything but situational) blabbers are fascinated with control and sovereignty because these red-light ideas keep them awake at night otherwise.
I went to college, and I went to high school. I know the prudes lost their minds as soon as they tasted that tiny, intense pleasure. Now they have them lining up to give blowjobs, using their abstinence pledges as a bib.
Want a good time, check out the College Republicans sorority.  

I want to thank David Kurtz for synthesizing something's been bothering me since I first noticed a difference between principle and simple peevishness. 
There's only a few things government can be used for. FIrst, you can allocate public resources and maintain things. Then you can either work to start something or to end something. Then there's a Democratic way, with studies and forums and shouting matches and eventually 50% of what was desired may come out of a committee. And then there's the Republican way, which seems to take no steps along any clearly defined path to learning or development of the topic.
Simply admitting they understand the opponent's position is impossible for one reason. They aren't here to govern, just to allocate and confuse the issue- because the constituency the RNC panders to is now perfectly, Orwellian-style, senile, maleducated, void of perspective, or 'Walking the Appalachian Trail' munching on Combos they bought with money earned from saying 'People shouldn't walk the Appalachian Trail'.
I still have a 100degree fever, so I'm done. But thanks again.

I used to have health insurance. When I stated my business, I became a group in league with the local Chamber of Commerce. Me and my wife would be insured for ~$450/month. The boy would cost $8.
The following year, my rate went up to $550. Next year to $650. That's when I said 'no more'. You see, I was clearly being screwed. Nothing drives the cost of my health up by 20% in a year. But more frustrating is the real basic what-you-get and what-you-really cost thing.
My wife and I are very healthy. We eat well, we exercise, don't smoke, don't usually drink to excess. Sure, she goes for the annual OB/GYN, but I've been to the doctor's office once in the past five years. But what's crazy, I mean bat-shit insane, is the young one. At the time, he was at the practice every few weeks. For $8/month. In my area, a recent development boom brought lots of new bedrooms and babies, so there were hundreds of these little $8 guys sucking up all the health for peanuts. Are phony low rates being subsidized by exorbitant adult rates?
Why does it cost what it costs to insure people? Because it's a business interested in profit, and it doesn't make what it sells. Basically, this is retail, but they don't buy the product. They just sell it. Meanwhile they pile up money and expenses. Administrative assistants, garage attendants, junket budgets,. The health economy is really screwed up, if only because nobody has calculated what it costs to insure a healthy family.
I want a government-run health insurance company with fixed salaries, nobody gets a second secretary, and no bonuses will be given out. It will force the real companies to react, because in the first month of this project we would all be crazy to stay with the crap we have.
Instead of a silly 'office of consumer protection', we might be better off with an office of Consumer Attention. Pay attention, you! And stop getting screwed! As in other cases, the economy would have sorted this out a long time ago were it not for the huge money, many enablers, and our general confusion as customers.

So once again, if the Republican 'deny it, do nothing and go find money' policy toward public health was going to work, it would have worked. Open a new Insurance company, FHIC, drive a lot of companies out of business, or force them to correct themselves. I don't believe people will ever not want to become doctors, but I can't imagine anyone ever wanting to be an insurer. Just take some of those top salaries out of the math, and we're golden.