Fine, that’s unfair, but this is a jarring paragraph from Barnes’s editorial on how Republicans can defeat Obamacare. Obama’s liberal reforms... would only
“„Obama’s liberal reforms… would only be a short step to a Canadian-style, single payer system run by bureaucrats in Washington. It’s worth noting how Canadian health care failed to save the life of actress Natasha Richardson after a recent ski accident. The nearby hospital had no scanning equipment or neurosurgeon, and there was no helicopter to fly her to a trauma center. By the time she arrived at one, she was brain dead. Why wasn’t proper treatment and equipment at hand? Government had decided not to pay for them.