Quoth misguided capitalist wrongthinker Daniel at The Triumvirate:

National government-run health care is the gateway drug to socialism.

[...]

Once they can establish in the minds of American voters the principle that the federal government can do things more efficiently, or that some things are so important that they must be done by the federal government, where might it end?

Indeed, comrade, where? Will they next take up the delivering of the daily post? Or the construction of vast national cart-paths? Perhaps even our local militias will someday be amalgamated into the one true power of the State if this glorious socialist revolution is allowed to its endpoint!

The road to Magnitogorsk, after all, passes through the Petrograd Children's Hospital.

Above: proposed logo for 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver.