This article over at the Belmont Club blog observes that some of those in charge of designing the utopian revamp of the U.S. health care system have already planned out how to handle the inherent scarcity of socialized medicine.
The gist is that older and very young should not get as much medical care from The System as those aged 15-40. Now, this may suit the immediate situation of the bulk of the lefty voting block. But once their parents start getting on in age and worse in health, and The System bureaucrats decide to refuse to grant treatment, even they won’t be able to ignore the implications. After all, everyone has parents, most of them are loved, and a few of them are rumoured to be even older than oneself. So, if The System turns out this way, even the shortsighted “gimme” voters will be smacked in the heart before too long. And maybe, just maybe, that spectacle will be awful enough for them to undo the damage.
See also The Roe Effect
headline: Cab Driver Cuts Own Head Off In Suicide
understatement: “Officers attended and the driver was found dead inside the vehicle.”
in other words: “… parts of the dead driver were found inside and outside the vehicle.”
A few days ago, there was one of those quiet mornings in the house that parents of young kids both delight and dread.
The delight comes from a few extra minutes of shuteye. The dread comes from realizing, just as this bonus sleep is about to commence, that the kids are awake, quiet, and probably up to no good.
I must have been away, so Juimiin found the two brats downstairs. They were playing Connect Four. The 2- and 4-year-old must have gone downstairs, become bored with the laptops and web browsers, popped open the toy box, set it up, and were playing a game. For real.
I guess the “Ages 7 and up” is inapplicable. If they bothered notice that on the box, 2-year-old Stuart might have decided to fix the label, like he did on another toy he was “too young” to play with:
