From across the pond, the Daily Mail reports that asylum seekers are trying to break out of Britain. Why?

[...] because they are fed up with the poor healthcare and bad weather.

And England has — say it with me — socialized healthcare.

Perhaps the proponents of a socialized healthcare system here in the United States, like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are actually trying to eliminate one of the reasons border-jumpers come here in the first place: our top-notch healthcare system. Perhaps their plan is really an anti-illegal immigration plan in disguise.

That would be believable until you remember that these presidential hopefuls are courting the Hispanic vote as well.

Conclusion: proponents of socialized healthcare systems can’t learn the lessons from other people’s failures. Instead they insist that “it’s a good idea, but it just hasn’t been implemented properly,” while trying to convince everyone that their way will work. For everyone who’s been paying attention, socialized anything never works, never has, and never will.

Same old story: a paper with known animosity toward the United States publishes a story about a study done by a British company that says that Britain is "more stable and prosperous" than the United States:

The United Kingdom has been ranked as one of the most stable and prosperous countries in the world, beating the United States, France and even Switzerland in a global assessment of every nation’s achievements and standards.

A one-year investigation and analysis of 235 countries and dependent territories has put the UK joint seventh in the premier league of nations. The top ten comprise also the Vatican, Sweden, Luxembourg, Monaco, Gibraltar, San Marino, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and the Irish Republic.

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Mr Le Mière said that the US had fallen down the scale, although it still scored an average of 93 out of 100, partly because of the proliferation of small arms owned by Americans and the threat to the population posed by the flow of drugs from across the Mexican border.

Actually, the "proliferation of small arms" should have bumped us up higher on the list. But then again, Mr Le Mière, the U.N., and the Times Online believe — like all good socialists — that the populace should be disarmed. 

Now the threat by illegal immigration and drugs… that is something we can agree with.

As a followup to yesterday’s post, you may want to watch the following YouTube video:

It is highly recommended that you peruse the website that created the video, FreeMarketCure.com.

For those who are unconvinced that the free market is the solution to healthcare in this country, and who still think that socialized medicine is the way to go, perhaps you should take a look at how well England’s socialized healthcare system is working out for them:

Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.

Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. [emphasis added]

Sorry, grandma. No pacemaker for you. And you need a bypass? Should have thought of that about 30 pounds ago. What’s that? “Thirty pounds overweight isn’t obese” you say? Well it depends on what the government’s definition of “obese” is. And to ensure your kids don’t pick up any of your bad eating habits, we’re now going to start monitoring their lunches:

School lunchboxes could soon be monitored by dinner ladies to ensure children are eating healthy meals, ministers said.

Under the Government’s obesity strategy, all schools will be expected to design a “healthy lunchbox policy” on what makes a nutritional packed lunch over the next year.

Some parents may even be asked to sign a form agreeing to ban unhealthy foods from their children’s lunches.

If a packed lunch is deemed to contain too much fat and sugar, parents could be sent warning letters or their children’s meals confiscated.

So America, let’s take some lessons from Across the Pond. Unless, of course, you want to be denied healthcare some day because you’re too old.