This is the NYC Passport Agency.  I spent some time there today to get a renewal.  I couldn’t help but think that this is what universal healthcare would look like.  Somewhere in America, someone would gun down a doctor causing a wave of bullet proof glass to arise in all doctor’s offices.  Doctor’s could no longer touch you except through bullet proof sleeves they’d stick through two holes in the glass.  Babies would have to be removed from strollers so everything could go through metal detectors.  The whole system would look and function like the absurd TSA.  We’d even have to take our shoes off to enter the buildings.  The only efficiencies that would arise is that the X-ray machine could function on babies and purses at once.

 I’m kidding…