No foreigner can even understand the American “health care” debate, which seems to any tourist casually surfing the news channels to involve everything but health care. Since the Second World War, government medical systems have taken hold in almost every developed nation, but only in America does the introduction of governmentalized health care impact small-business hiring practices and religious liberty, and require 16,500 new IRS agents and federal bonuses for contributing to a national database of seat-belt wearers. Thus, Big Government American-style: Byzantine, legalistic, whimsical, coercive, heavy on the paperwork, and lacking the one consolation of statism — the great clarifying simplicity of universal mediocrity.
Except for the almost obligatory reference to what a playah he is, this Steyn essay is pretty good. If the horrible impact of the electronic medical records regulation is accurate as a foreshadowing of how bad Obamacare is going to be, it's going to be pretty bad. --ts
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