Because, As We All Know, Not Being Able to Afford Treatment for Cancer is JUST LIKE Not Being Able to Afford That House in the Hamptons.

If you have money you’re going to get a house on the beach. If you don’t have money you’re going to live in a bungalow somewhere…You’re assuming there’s some morally superior aspect to healthcare….. Rush Limbaugh, on William Shatner’s "Raw Nerve," via J. E. Robertson.

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It’s always fascinating to sit down with people who spout Rush’s brand of nonsense and point out to them the nuts and bolts of what they’re advocating. Ask them directly what should happen to, say, a poor person with a serious brain injury whose family cannot afford the expensive rehabilitation required -- then listen to the stammers, watch those eyes skitter nervously into the far corners of the room, enjoy the soft-shoe as they struggle to drag the conversation to over to anything other than what you just asked them. Being faced with the inhuman consequences of the policies they advocate doesn’t cause them to rethink those policies. It just makes them search for a way to present those policies in a palatable manner.

And they can’t.

What we’re seeing in our national discourse these days is the free market ship of the Reagan revolution running aground on reality.