Bryan from Hot Air blog says,
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have of late engaged in a back-and-forth over their respective health care plans. Now John Edwards is swinging into the fray with a plan that is best summed up in a single word: Totalitarian. Not making this up.
He goes on post a number of fairly strident quotes by Edwards, such as
“I’m mandating healthcare for every man woman and child in America and that’s the only way to have real universal healthcare.”
What he is responding to is the feeling that being forced to do something in the name of the collective good sometimes doesn’t feel so good. And sometimes the ends do not justify the means (add your own cliché here).
But not allowing for people to opt out of some universal coverage scheme is hardly totalitarian; I personally like the term “friendly fascism” as my own personal exaggeration of things I dislike but am compelled to do. It represents a little better the attitude of self-righteous smugness that we find in healthcare from time to time.
