Mark Steyn: Talk About "Sicko"

National Review Online ^ | July 4, 2005 issue | Mark Steyn

[Constitution Day]

Steyn ping?

[rockrr]

Great read! (As always with Steyn ;'}

[Pokey78]

Thanks CD!

Steyn ping!

[Mr. K]

excellent read~!

We have a local author who writes bi-weekly about the need for a wonderful government nanny state, while (with seemingly no sense of irony) he complains about the idiocy of the local politicians and the inept govt employees.

[Alexander Rubin]

Steyn is a brilliant writer. Plus, he has great sources for anecdotal evidence that always perfectly illustrates his case. Too bad he lives in America now. :( The Libranos scared him off. He broke the omerta on health care.

[TX Bluebonnet]

If the Democrats have their way and America moves (as it’s doing incrementally) to government health care, the entire system will fall apart and we Montrealers will have to drive a week south to Costa Rica.

I know a lady who just drove her grandson down to Mexico to have a root canal. There is an American dentist working down there right across the border. I guess he doesn't have to pay malpractice insurance so its is much cheaper.??

[GOPJ]

First came the French and Dutch voters’ demolition job on the European Union’s ersatz constitution designed to enshrine permanent rule by a technocratic elite convinced it knows better than the citizenry what’s good for them.

You either trust the people or you've got the heart of a totalitarian. It's that simple...

[GOPJ]

The fact that we all received the same non-treatment testified to our virtue, though even this perverse defense was utterly phony: One of the most unattractive features of our ersatz egalitarianism was that it led to the creation of a humbug nomenklatura who (like Canada’s prime minister) use private clinics for their own health even as they continue to proclaim that decrepit incompetent monopoly public health is an eternal “Canadian value” that can never be changed.

Is this like the dems putting their kids in private schools while condemning vouchers? The dem mentality is everywhere...

[Dog Gone]

Well done.

[Constitution Day]

:)

[baseballmom]

bump for later

[listenhillary]

The much vaunted progressiveness and compassion of our defining Big Idea has dwindled down into a kinky pleasure in universal mediocrity.

[NCSteve]

This is more proof of Michael Savage's claim that liberalism is a mental disorder. They just keep trying the same failed ideas over and over again, expecting a different result each time.

Oh, and Steyn is brilliant, as usual.

[mvpel]

bookmark

[Gritty]

Has anybody figured out how to clone Mark Steyn yet?

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey! Wow! Steyn inspires more tags than practically any other writer, LOL. See below.

[drpix]

Someone once encapsulated socialism in one rule - which in this case applies literally:

'When you cannot comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.' (paraphrased)

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Oscar-winning crockumentary maker Michael Moore, whose forthcoming film Sicko is a savage indictment of U.S. health care leavened with a Bowling for Columbine–type suck-up about how we Canadians do these things so much better. That section may have to be re-edited.

Only stupid thing I've ever seen Steyn write - why does he think Moore would let facts get in the way of one of his "documentaries"?

[gcruse]

The dem mentality is everywhere...

IINM, Congresscritters do not participate in Social Security, do they?