Why ObamaCare Isn’t Flying

Daniel Heninger writes at the Wall Street Journal: “The answer lies in the often-repeated phrase that they are trying to reform ’16% of the American economy.’ Why would anyone think it possible in 2010—as politics, economics or mere practical feasibility—to reorder 16% of a $14 trillion economy of 300 million people living in 50 separate states whose geography is 16 times larger than France? . . . this isn’t 1939. It’s not even 1994. American health care, whatever its defects, is today unimaginably complex. What the Democrats are trying to do isn’t just difficult. It’s impossible . . . “