Our beloved government has put out a publication which essentially says that universal health care is the first step towards totalitarianism. It sounds like a Ronald Reagan speech about the horrors of Medicare in the early sixties.
In order to accept this argument, you have to agree with the following premises:
- The US health care system is overwhelmingly based on free market principles;
- The US system gives better value for money than government-run systems all over the world; and
- Canada and European countries, even those with conservative governments, are on the slippery slope to Maoism.
I suspect this last point would come as a surprise to May, Merkel, and Macron. And if you buy into the argument, you are another m-word–a moron.