« Pakistan Says U.S. Muslims May Have Planned Nuclear Attack | Main | Telegraph: Revolutionary operation could 'cure' high blood pressure »

December 26, 2009

Mark Steyn: 'Obamacare a fast-track to permanent left-of-center political culture'

Topics: Political News and commentaries

And as Stein appropriately points out, not only have we begun on a fast-track to a permanent left-of-center political culture, our new Euro-style government on a Harry Reid/Chris Dodd/Ben Nelson scale will lead to our ruin (financially, culturally, and for the elderly and infirmed - physically):

[...] Looking at the millions of Americans it leaves uninsured, and the millions it leaves with worse treatment and reduced access, and the millions it makes pay significantly more for their current health care, one can only marvel at Harry Reid's genius: government health care turns out to be all government and no health care. Adding up the zillions of new taxes and bureaucracies and regulations it imposes on the citizenry, one might almost think that was the only point of the exercise.

That's why I believe America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a bigtime hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs, and arbitrary shakedowns.

Read it all.

Posted by Richard at December 26, 2009 3:24 PM

Articles Related to Political News and commentaries:

• Mark Steyn: 'Obamacare a fast-track to permanent left-of-center political culture' - Dec 26, 2009