[nuconvert]

Love the last paragraph.

I’ve never been a Mitt supporter, but it seems to me that he’s backing away from Romneycare and maybe seeing the problems with it up close & personal, puts him in a better position to argue against it than his opponents.

[nuconvert]

BTW - this should be posted in News forum, not Blogs. It's a legitimate editorial.

[samtheman]

The inflationary factor in Massachusetts health care was not caused by deadbeats’ using emergency rooms as their family doctor but by the metastasizing cost distortions of government intervention in health care: Mitt should have known that — just as he should know that government intervention in college loans has absurdly inflated the cost of ludicrously overvalued credentials and, in a broader sense, helped debauch America’s human capital. And just as he should know that government intervention in the mortgage market is why every day more and more American homeowners are drowning in negative equity.

There's an extremely important idea outlined in these 2 sentences. I wonder how many college graduates understand this idea. I wonder how many elected officials do. I wonder how many "Republicans" do.

[samtheman]

The inflationary factor in Massachusetts health care was not caused by deadbeats’ using emergency rooms as their family doctor but by the metastasizing cost distortions of government intervention in health care: Mitt should have known that — just as he should know that government intervention in college loans has absurdly inflated the cost of ludicrously overvalued credentials and, in a broader sense, helped debauch America’s human capital. And just as he should know that government intervention in the mortgage market is why every day more and more American homeowners are drowning in negative equity.

Mark Steyn "gets it". I wonder who else "gets it".

Obviously Romney is leader of the pack of those who just don't get it.

But just as obvious: Trump doesn't get it. He has said that national healthcare is a necessity, and we just need the right "deal" to make it work.

[P.O.E.]

the usual oozing pustuled behemoth of drearily foreseeable unforeseen consequences.

Le Fleur de Mal.

[Tax-chick]

And Americans might as well shred the thing and scatter it as confetti over Prince William and his lovely bride, along with an accompanying note saying, “Come back. It was all a ghastly mistake.” For if conceding jurisdiction over your lungs and kidneys and bladder does not make you a subject rather than a citizen, what does?

This remninds me of a P.J. O'Rourke column in which he speculated that the countries of the former British empire would invite the Brits back: "Please to come back, sahib English, and snob us and make the Coca-Cola machine work again."

[wintertime]

“If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”( from the article)
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Mark Steyn is part of the problem if he proudly holds that Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution is a “technicality”.

As much as I like Mark Steyn,...Wow!...What a disappointment!

[wintertime]

American conservatives’ problem with Romneycare is the same as with Obamacare — that, if the government (whether state or federal) can compel you to make arrangements for the care of your body parts that meet the approval of state commissars, the Constitution is dead. And Americans might as well shred the thing and scatter it as confetti over Prince William and his lovely bride, along with an accompanying note saying, “Come back. It was all a ghastly mistake.” For if conceding jurisdiction over your lungs and kidneys and bladder does not make you a subject rather than a citizen, what does?

But....Having a usurper in the White House, who can ( and has) put thousands out of work with the stroke of a pen on an executive order, or can send our military into to hostile countries to set up regimes dedicated to our extinction, ...well...that's a "distraction" and a "technicality".

[Matchett-PI]

Steyn: “The Republicans have a habit of nominating the guy whose turn it is: Bob Dole, John McCain. ...”

In other words, clueless RINOS:

October 11th, 2008
CNN POLITICS
McCain to crowd: ‘Don’t be scared’ of Obama presidency
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/11/mccain-to-crowd-dont-be-scared-of-obama-presidency/

[Matchett-PI]

Steyn: “American conservatives’ problem with Romneycare is the same as with Obamacare ­ that, if the government (whether state or federal) can compel you to make arrangements for the care of your body parts that meet the approval of state commissars, then the Constitution is dead. ....For if conceding jurisdiction over your lungs and kidneys and bladder does not make you a subject rather than a citizen, what does? I doubt Romney thought about it in such terms. In 2006, he was ___not a philosophical conservative___. Like Donald Trump today, he sold himself as a successful business guy, a problem solver who knew how to make things happen. So he made things happen. And, as a result, he made things worse. ...”

Wikipedia Hillarycare, Newt, Herman Cain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993

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In 2004, as a U.S. senator from New York, Hillary Clinton argued in The New York Times that the current health care system is unsustainable, and she offered several solutions Her article also mentioned areas of agreement with one-time opponent Newt Gingrich, and likewise Gingrich has expressed agreement with Senator Clinton on some aspects of health care, including a bill to modernize medical record keeping.

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One key turning point against the Clinton plan was a televised town hall meeting in April 1994. During the event, President Clinton was challenged by businessman Herman Cain on the resulting effects on small businesses.[19]

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How Herman Cain Killed Hillarycare

Posted Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:39 PM | By David Weigel
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/01/13/how-herman-cain-killed-hillarycare.aspx

[PGalt]

HOORAY Mark Steyn! Thanks for posting.

[The_Reader_David]

Steyn brilliant as always. If Rush ever decides to retire (or if he’s setting up what EIB should do in the event of his death), I hope “The Rush Limbaugh Show” continues without El Rushbo, and with a rotation of his regular guest hosts. I’d like Steyn 2/5 of the time, with Walter Williams and Mark Belling 1/5 of the time each, and a rotation others for the remaining 1/5.