National Pharmacare is Just Incremental Socialism

Both the NDP and the Liberal Party of Canada have been agitating for some time for a national pharmacare program. Despite the fact that the Trudeau liberals have run a four hundred billion dollar deficit this year, (and plan to run a deficit of at least a hundred billion next year), the social democrats want yet another sector of the Canadian economy nationalized by the state. You would think, given the failure of socialized medical insurance (Canada has some of the worst health care results among OECD nations because of state efforts to smother private health care options) the politicians and academics in this country would have learned their lesson. The market, not state control, is the only way forward. But it isn’t really about results with these people, it’s about ideology.

Incremental socialism is a strategy by communists to establish total state control over the economy one industry at a time. And after all, why shouldn’t Canadians have “free dental care” if we have “free health care”. Heck, why shouldn’t we have free everything? Free ponies, free money. Let’s throw a party. Who can argue with free stuff? Unfortunately there is very little as expensive as free stuff from the government, as the long-suffering Canadian taxpayer knows. With a substantial portion of the Canadian public on the receiving end of government largess, be it, unemployed parents, with their $500 per month per child subsidies and welfare checks, or the ever-expanding political class of bureaucrats, politicians, and academics, the people left paying taxes are under ever-increasing…