Claims the NY Times: "Any nation as rich as ours ought to guarantee health coverage for all of its residents." But why stop there? Shouldn't this be an open-ended redistributionist creed? "Any nation as rich as ours ought to guarantee [fill in the blank] for all of its residents." Or how about an accurate translation of this assertion? ""Any people as rich as ours ought to to be looted by the state to guarantee all the Mid-East wars, foreign aid, welfare, spying, and subsidies for dying newspapers that we want."