Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think its an assault on citizenship. – Mark Steyn
The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy its a permanent feature of life and theres nothing anyone can do about it. – Mark Steyn
The essence of a government health care system – for people who have never lived under it and dont know – is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. – Mark Steyn
We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody whos lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue. – Mark Steyn
Theres definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more its rewarded. – Jon Ronson
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early