Killing the Goose

This is surreal.

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - A group of Democrats on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday called for health insurers to pay fees worth up to $100 billion over a decade to help pay for the overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.

So the health insurers will be used to pay for the government system that will compete with them, finally destroying them? After which the new health care system will be paid for by ... who?

Are these people completely insane?