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"Diagnosis: Great idea," he said on Thursday night's show. "Prescription: Pay for healthcare by letting people sell their organs." Hodgman claimed that a healthy human kidney is worth $160,000, "And we all have two of them, like big, fat money bags nestled right here behind the spleen."

After four decades of urging students, hippies, communists, and agitators to come out en masse to protest the U.S. government, protests that commonly turned to violence, Democrats are at last finding a protest they don't like because, with the healthcare debate, this time it is a protest of them and not by them.

An organization supported by Obama, Biden and 190 members of Congress, Health Care for America Now, instructs Democrats to confiscate signs and leaflets brought to Obamacare events by "rightwing extremists," that is to say Americans opposed to totalitarian health care.

U.S. lawmakers have a big battle ahead in September. What should they do about the nation's healthcare system? Those pushing for change say too many Americans are uninsured or not covered for all their illnesses. And they say for those who are happy with their coverage the cost will get out of control in a matter of years.