The Second American Revolution | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

The Second American Revolution | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "'For generations, we doctors have promised our patients that medical advances will allow us all to live longer, more comfortable lives. Now that these results are finally arriving, 'health-care reform' — or 'insurance reform' (as our would-be health czar now calls it) — could snatch the rug out from under us.'

If the president succeeds in having Congress enact into law a national federal council to decide the most cost-effective medical care, those national standards will necessarily override which specific care can be most effective for each individual patient. Is expressing that concern, even loudly — about being lost in the abstract whole — what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls 'un-American' as she scorns these citizen eruptions by latter-day sons and daughters of liberty?"