Itโ€™s smart of him to talk so much about itโ€“itโ€™s one of the Democratsโ€™ best issues. And his diagnosis is not entlrely wrong: The current system does subject most people to third-party rationing, and we can do better. His promise that everyone will get the kind of health plan that senators do seems oddโ€“that promise seems more compatible with a Heritage Foundation-style plan than with the Kerry plan.