FTA: "The president's insistence that Washington doesn't have a spending problem, Mr. Boehner says, is predicated on the belief that massive federal deficits stem from what Mr. Obama called 'a health-care problem.' Mr. Boehner says that after he recovered from his astonishment—'They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system'—he replied: 'Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with ObamaCare. But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem.' He repeated this message so often, he says, that toward the end of the negotiations, the president became irritated and said: 'I'm getting tired of hearing you say that.'

Does Obama actually believe that? Or is it an extreme position he's staking out?

I don't know. Both are possible. I DO know that "free" health care has been a goal of the Communists here in America for a long, long time. They were talking it up when I was a Commie back in the early Seventies.