Perhaps, Mr. Reed, it's just a return to the number of people who died in the streets without health care before Obamacare saved us.

Oh, wait, there weren't any -- well, except those who refused to get health care or any other care and chose to live in the gutters, alleys and freeway underpasses.

Overlooked in all this: There were supposedly anywhere from 35 million to 55 million, depending on who was giving the statistic du jour, clamoring for health insurance. Yet fewer than half those chose to get coverage under Obamacare. Clearly, either the number of those without coverage -- which is different than being without health care, by the way -- and desperate to get it was exaggerated. That it took manipulation of roughly one-seventh of the entire U.S. economy to get a fraction of that number covered was remarkable.

But at least we got to keep our plans and save $2,500 on our premiums...