When Democrats talk about the state of the nation’s health-care system, they like to use words like “crisis” and “emergency.” Take a look at this chart from the latest Pew survey:

Notice something? The percentage of respondents citing health care as a major national problem stays flat and low until the Democrats put forward a bill that:

  1. Forces young and healthy people to purchase a product, health insurance, that they don’t want; and
  2. Threatens people who are happy with their employer-provided care with being dumped into a government-run plan that the president himself has analogized to the U.S. Postal Service.

This is to say nothing of the hundreds of billions it would add to the deficit, the prospect of higher taxes, or the comments of various Obamacare supporters that it is a paving stone on the road to single-payer. No wonder more people are citing “health care” as a major national problem: Democrats are trying to make it one with a solution that is worse than the relatively minor problems we need to solve.