It's Not You, It's Me

Enjoyable op-ed on the potential fallout from red versus blue state health care debates:

http://finance.yahoo.com/insurance/article/107941/let-the-red-states-secede.html

Though it is a stretch to suggest that health care could be solved by dissolving the polygamous marriage of 50 states, the thinking is not reductio ad absurdum.

Some food for thought:

But America is starting to resemble those other countries where two or more
"nations" coexist unhappily within a single state -- like the English and the
Scottish, the Spanish and the Catalans, or even the English-speaking Canadians
and the Quebecois. In most cases, greater autonomy for the two halves usually
has been found to make both sides happier.