We just saw John Q last evening. Decent movie. Densel Washington is always good. But then the movie turned into an advertisement for socialized health care. It was really there all along, but the message wasn't implicit anymore by the end.
The movie pissed me off after that. It showed Hillary Clinton arguing the cause. "The richest nation in history should be able to afford national health insurance" yada yada.
No. It doesn't follow. Just because everyone should have health care, it doesn't follow that therefore the government should provide it! It is fundamentally not the government's job to provide for all the wants and needs of its people.
Plus, I hate it when people refer to our country as "history's richest nation", forgetting that we have something like a 5 trillion dollar debt as well as a huge and growing trade deficit. Considering that, we may well be one of history's poorest nations. It's silly to think that somehow our country has enough money to start paying for everybody's doctor bills.
Monday, February 25, 2002
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