Late Saturday evening  7 November after the Pelosi win in the House, 220-215, a big-shouldered and sympathetic young man from ESPN Radio came over to my studio to ask what the vote meant for him, for the way he handled his healthcare as a part-time worker at several broadcast and media units. I knew what he meant. Was this bill going to cost him money that he didn't much have, because he would be required to purchase healthcare or pay a fine? I told him that I didn't have healthcare from college until I was in my 40s, and that if I had lived under the plan just passed in the House, I could not have managed being a novelist (with my real name). He thought about it. I told him that there would be about thirty million young people in his category, and we were fresh out of jails, so that it would come to a fine on your taxes. He thought about it and asked, "What's going to happen?" I didn't have a good answer, so I told him that after they argued for a long time, everyone was going to make money except the taxpayers and guys like us. I should not have been cynical. I am older. I have responsibility to be earnest when asked an earnest question. I went for irony.  The above ad from the usual lobbying crowd, this time called "League of Americans Voters," tries mockery and cynicism.