It’s not about health care, it’s about government power
An alert reader sent me a link today to a Mark Steyn column at National Review Online.
It is an excellent piece on how once a bureaucracy, once installed, is practically impossible to dismantle. Steyn used the examples of the Departments of Education and Energy.
"I’ve been saying in this space for two years that the governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture," Steyn writes. "It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible. ... The result is a kind of two-party one-party state: Right-of-center parties will once in a while be in office, but never in power, merely presiding over vast left-wing bureaucracies that cruise on regardless."
As Steyn notes in passing without explaining, the only person to ever dismantle such bureaucracies was Margaret Thatcher who privatized the once nationalized industries and utilities. But even she could not reprivatize socialized medicine.
But what struck me on first opening the article was the fact there were ads for both Danny Tarkanian and Sue Lowden on the page. Looks like they are putting their money on the conservative vote. The ads are loaded dynamically so you might have to reload the page a couple of times to see them.
