Even if we’ve seen the Problem Reaction Solution crap over and over and over again we don’t learn. As a country we’re a battered wife who thinks of the government as our husband who hits us becomes it loves us, never seeing the constant and escalating abusiveness.

And stuff like the above is only going to get worse. Where’s the line in the sand?

Next, when people can no longer afford it, require care givers to treat people anyway.

When that turns into a disaster, require people to get insurance for things like a case of the sniffles, or a cut that requires stitches– things that people used to just pay for directly.

When that turns out badly, start fining people for not getting insurance.

In short, create problems, then blame freedom, and enact more restrictions that will lead to more problems, ad infinitum. This has also been working brilliantly in the energy business for decades.

By all means, never, ever even talk about a free market in health care, ’cause that would be just…crazy!

“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. ” – Samuel Adams.

Kinda like giving away a cooler full of free beer in the parking lot outside a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert, and then bragging about how “successful” your beer giveaway was, as if you thought you might have trouble unloading it all.

I’m all out of -isms.

Communists would institute taxing the wealthiest segments of society and giving *everybody* universal coverage. Not the same thing as the monstrosity described above.