The infectious lunacy of socialized medicine

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Over the last few years, healthcare policy has certainly taken the limelight. Sadly, it seems rationality has largely been put to the wayside as people grapple with the idea of socializing our healthcare system entirely. Indeed, we’d be the first nation to do so, but that’s not quite avant-garde enough for some folks’ tastes. A Los Angeles Times columnist, for example, recently pled for “Medicare for all” to extend to pets — “Peticare for all,” as he calls it. Yes, that’s wild, but wild is what we get when logic and coherence are no longer priorities.

Yet, even as insane as “Peticare for all” would be, “Medicare for all” would be just as crazy.

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