“Let me start with the observation from Hilaire Belloc. In his book The Servile State, Belloc writes that “The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”’

I expect Obama and his cronies don’t need to read Belloc to understand that. The same idea comes from a source they are much more likely to be familiar with, Vladimir Lenin. “He who does not obey does not eat.” That’s the “Iron Law of Socialism” and, in a complex modern economy with things like health care up for grabs, the principle will be extended to the other necessities of life in such an economy.

In any case we have seen how poorly nationalized health care works in places like Canada and Britain. There is no reason to expect it to work any better here. Indeed, given the importation by the Obama Administration of Chicago Machine political methods and ethics into national politics it is likely that we will get a positively Third World level of incompetence and corruption in any nationalized health scheme here in the USA. I think the Democrats would regard that as a feature, not a bug. It’s wider even than Chicago too. Fannie and Freddie were big cash cows for influential Dems who were given sinecures on their boards and in their managements, who helped bring them to their present status.