Paul Krugman* wants everyone to be required by law to purchase health insurance, and it burns his ass that not all the Democrat presidential candidates agree with him. Let it never be said that there are no totalitarians in our midst.

* “Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults” (Daniel Okrent, “13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did,” The New York Times, 22 May 2005).