Nothing about America's ever-expanding welfare state has been more egregious than its unflinching cultivation of personal irresponsibility. From able-bodied people getting welfare or disability payments, to single women having illegitimate children, much of what we used to consider unacceptable or immoral behavior has been de-stigmatized.
Our shame-free society must be kept in mind during the GOP's effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare. That's because the Left's greatest weapon--one also embraced by several weak-kneed Republicans--is the idea that if whatever emerges in ObamaCare's place leaves even one less person without healthcare insurance, America becomes a nation of heartless Cossacks willing to let people "die in the streets."
