There will be a lot to say about health care for years to come, but the most important thing about it is that it proved the government’s utter helplessness to police whole sectors of society. Forget about fixing the health care industry; what President Obama proved to America is that his government couldn’t even win back the right to truly regulate this massive industry, even with a historic mandate at his back and after giving away everything he had to trade, conceding even the power to tax.

