As we're all painfully aware by now, Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to both expand health care in this country while making it more affordable.

But a quick glance at the pilot problem in Massachusetts shows—along with a little common mathematical sense—that you can't do both at the same time. There's clearly very little that's affordable in PPACA. We just haven't gotten all the bills yet.

(And, yeah, I know I've covered this before but I really didn't want to write about Rush Limbaugh, birth control or feigned moral outrage this week. I gave up all three for Lent.)

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