The Only Choice

Link-heavy post over at Protein Wisdom on the coming nationalization (bastardization is a better word) of the American health care system. We've already talked here about the nationalized systems of Canada, Britain, and France, and how nationalization leads to rationing, which leads to picking winners (young and healthy taxpayers) and losers (the elderly and chronically ill). No one wants to admit this is going to happen. And, as always, it's marketed by Dems and others as "a moral right to quality health care" with bunnies and flowers and unicorns!
I was having a conversation with someone this past weekend. We were discussing the powers of the federal government vs. state and local governments. He said he thought state and local governments had too much power (speaking specifically of high property taxes and eminent domain laws). I said, at least you can leave a city or state if you don't like the way things are run. It's infinitely harder to leave the United State of America if you don't like the way it's being run.
You just have to deal with it, you try to change people's opinions, you try to get your guy voted in next time.
I used to want to live in Australia or Britain someday, but they are both further along the nanny-state path than we are - although we're running hard to catch up.