This Bridge Will Fail

When an engineer designs a bridge, he has to pay attention to fundamental principles if he wishes the bridge to serve its intended purpose. For example, most of the forces exerted on a bridge are due to the earth's gravitational pull on the bridge itself and on the vehicles that traverse the bridge. If engineers were like modern-day politicians, they would choose to ignore gravity as being "old school", out of fashion, irrelevant to the modern age, modern materials, and modern design methodology. And their bridges would fail.

Wait, you say, what is the point? The point is that politicians are trying to convince us that a government-run health care system will somehow be immune to the laws of economics and human behavior. There are reasons why socialist enterprises are sub-optimal - it isn't about intentions or intelligence or compassion. This bridge will fail.