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May 27, 2009

Narcissistic Socialist

RepublicanAmerican is writing about Maryland's version of what Canadians like to call "free health care". In doing so, he may have coined a name for the most influential political movement of the age.

Now The Boston Globe reports that even though Massachusetts has more doctors per capita than any state, waiting periods to see medical specialists for routine care have grown, again because of Commonwealth Care. The average wait for a specialist now is 50 days; for a family doctor, it's 63, while the average woman who thinks she's pregnant doesn't get to see an obstetrician-gynecologist until her second trimester. But for the busiest physicians, the wait can be as much as a year, simply because narcissistic socialist politicians fancied themselves better qualified to run the state's heath-care system than people with many years of training and experience.

Another thought: Keep all this in mind the next time anyone suggests Mitt Romney is the future of the Republican party. Mitt Romney is not even the past of the Republican party.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 27, 2009 07:48 AM