The newest angle on the failed London and Glasgow car bombings emerged on Fox yesterday as Jerry Bowyer of NRO explained why state-run health care makes terrorism more likely:
Doctors in America tend to sort of cluster together in these practices... maybe a dozen partners... And if one of your partners is a jihadist, spending all this time online reading Osama Bin Laden fatwas, somebody's going to notice that. But the National Health Service is more like the Post Office. You know, there's a lot of anonymity. It's easy to hide in the bureaucracy. And more to the point, if you're a physician and you're in partnership with another physician and they turn out to be a terrorist, the practice is blown. You know, there are severe economic consequences for you. But in a big bureaucracy, that's not the case.
The ideas were maybe a little unformed - under this logic, shouldn't we also eliminate single-doctor practices (something incidently that is taking place in Britain) - but by the time the new brilliant idea reached MSNBC and its military-affairs (!) sage Jack Jacobs, the emotional thrust was really less about state-run healthcare per se and more about about the horrors of pluralistic states that allow things like this to happen:
A very large proportion of the medical practitioners are foreign -- not just foreign born medical practitioners, but foreign-born medical practitioners who aren't even British subjects, something you've got to keep an eye on.
It's hard to know whether to laugh or get very drunk.
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