Quote of the Day I

The ever-insightful Mark Steyn, writing for National Review, about why government-controlled health care is just wrong:

Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks — drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high.

In other words, the price is the loss of personal freedom. Well said, Mark.