Fallout

On CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, they agreed that if there is government health care, and therefore “we” are financially responsible for everyone’s illness, then the government must control food companies so they offer healthy (in the Department of Agriculture’s view) food, and make people eat, drink, and smoke less. It was a great demonstration of the totalitarian aura of such legislation. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, we were told by Donny Deutsch that reform will save 45-55,000 lives a year. This is not as crazy as the 1940s claim that state medicine in Britain could eventually enable everyone to live … Continue reading Fallout