Posted by
skep41 on Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:47:48 AM
Recently there have been generic TV ads by some left-wing foundation
demanding that the California Legislature 'Do Something' about the
health-care 'crisis'. I guess by crisis they mean that poor people are
stuck getting free but less-than-the-best service from overpressed
county authorities while the majority of insured middle-class people
have much shorter wait times and access to a wider variety of services.
Asking the confused Marxist hippies and rabid Mexican nationalists who
compose the California Legislature to stick their noses into running
the state's health care system is to sneer in the face of death. These
idiots will kill us in the name of Fairness.
Today there was an
article on Townhall about the Canadian system, and the many Canuks who
come south for medical care that is readily available here. The ongoing
collapse of all these panacea free health care systems is as certain as
it is predictable. Nationalizing industries never works.
Here's My Comment:
Is This A Free Country? If
this is a free country then where's all my free stuff? Or, to put it in
the words of one of our local TV newscasters during the HillaryCare
debate in the mid-90's, "Free Healthcare, how much will it cost?"
We've
now had a century of governments nationalizing industries in the name
of fairness and the results are always the same; scarcity, much higher
costs, preferred access for the well-connected, and an end to
innovation. Anyone who can look at the results of the many
national-government health systems around the world and still be in
favor of nationalization is a fool. Unfortunately if you attach the
word 'free' to anything these days the hogs will come arunnin. This
debate is just the Democrats yelling, "Sooooey!" and banging on the
swill bucket. Reasoned arguments will have no effect, after all, its a
Free Country, isnt it?