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
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
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think its an assault on citizenship. – Mark Steyn
I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume theyll have available to them if they get sick. – Debbie Stabenow