The Crowbar

Speaking of populism, Christy Hardin Smith over at Firedoglake is up in banadaged arms about health care. She is specifically upset that the government isn’t footing the the entire health care bill for everyone in the nation.  Smith has a message for us all, that “half-assed health insurance doesn’t work.” I suppose that means that Whole-Assed insurance would work? Isn’t that the angelic Notsocialism that leftist bloggers keep telling us about, Christy? Smith builds her argument in favor of socialized medicine entirely with anecdotal accounts of people having difficulty with the existing health care system. Making people pay for their own care is Evil Capitalist talk.

In what universe does it make sense that the people who most need regular medical care are the ones least likely to get it?

That would be in the Socialized Medicine Universe.