Stossel: 'America Needs "Healthy Wisconsin"'

You get torn with logic like this. But, with free market libertarians, you come to expect it.

As a free market Wisconsinite, you can't help but cringe.

In a column today, ABC News John Stossel says that America needs "Healthy Wisconsin," just to watch it crash and burn, then learn from the mistake.

That's why America needs "Healthy Wisconsin." The fall of the Soviet Union deprived us of the biggest example of how socialism works. We need laboratories of failure to demonstrate what socialism is like. All we have now is Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, the U.S. Post Office, and state motor-vehicle departments.

It's not enough. Wisconsin can show the other 49 states what "universal" coverage is like.

I feel bad for the people in Wisconsin. They already suffer from little job creation, and the Packers aren't winning, but it's better to experiment with one state than all of America.

I'm sure the other big Libertarian in media, Neal Boortz, has said something similar in recent weeks.

Kagen, Vinehout, and Erpenbach's Dream Envisioned

Of course in Cuba, they'd probably just end your suffering with a bullet to the brain.

(Oh wait, that's just the AIDS patients.)

Behold, socialized medicine.

A 108-year-old woman has been told she must wait at least 18 months before she receives a new hearing aid.

Olive Beal, who has failing eyesight and uses a wheelchair, finds it difficult to hear with her five-year-old analogue aid and needs a digital version that cuts out background noise and makes conversation easier.

Mrs Beal, a former piano teacher who was involved in the suffragette movement, would be 110 by the time she gets her new hearing aid. "I could be dead by then," she said yesterday.

Mrs. Beal is actually one of the lucky ones. According to Britain's Royal Institute for the Deaf, the average time on the waiting list is two years.

Kagen's Interesting Friends

Appears the John Birch Society loves the good Doctor.

He can have them.

(Pat Buchanan too while I think of it...)

What is it with the whack-jobs from Appleton? Did history just decide to play a grand, cosmic joke on that city?

Attention Steve Kagen

Your quest for Socialized Health Care is over!

San Francisco, home of Nancy Pelosi, started it's own program on Monday. (Do they still pay the homeless cash out there?)

But Steve, bit of a warning -- you may have to get in line. But relax, the wait apparently isn't long.

Mary Katharine Ham reports that a total of 29 signed up on Monday.