From the Editor

Five years ago I was hooked up to a machine pulsing electricity into my arm while rain water spat on me, the wires and the apparatus itself. But that tale will have to wait for a moment.

You see, unless there’s an unexpected shift in Washington, the healthcare marketplace opens today.

Yeah, yeah—you either consider this the beginning of the end for America or you’re breathing “finally,” with a sigh of relief. Well, I’m not about to dive into the argument abyss.

To put it as simply as possible, the Affordable Care Act hardly represents a turn toward socialism, considering that the plan is based...