Quote of the Day.

An email link from Robb of Sharp as a Marble brought me to this Protein Wisdom post on Britons seeking foreign alternatives for their National Health Service when major surgery is needed. Read the whole post, but here's the QotD:

Of course, none of this will stop the push for socialized medicine in the US, because if there’s one thing progressives excel at it is convincing themselves that any failure of ideology is attributable to the failure of the person or persons leading it — and that all that is required for Utopian policy to prove truly viable is the right kind of leaders: confident and brilliant (by their own lights) elitist bureaucrats who will resist the corrupting influences that “free market types” are always arguing are inherent to such systems.

Gee. Remind you of anyone?