PRUDEN: More Dr. Bureaucrat horrors - Washington Times

PRUDEN: More Dr. Bureaucrat horrors - Washington Times: "A liberal mistrusts lessons bought with experience. For him, theory is all. He's the only man who would sit down on a red-hot stove twice. That makes well-meaning Democrats marks for shysters selling health-care 'reform,' global warming and appeasement of radical Islamists.

We're not supposed to ask why so many Canadians, pleased and proud of their cradle-to-grave nanny care, try to get to the United States when they get really sick. We're not supposed to examine Britain's National Health Service, which in theory stands ready to cure everything from hickies and noogies to heart transplants and sex-change surgery, to see how our English cousins manage when they get sick.

It's certainly true that not everyone who goes into a British hospital feeling bad leaves feeling worse or, even worse, leaves in a body bag. Many British doctors are skilled and hard-working. The taunt that 'British health care is the best that Pakistan can provide' rings false. Many of the best doctors are Pakistani immigrants, and many English doctors have bailed for America, but what's wrong with British health care lies in the inevitable leveling of socialism, where everyone is entitled to the second-rate."