Fabulous insight into what makes liberals tick, via the New York Times:

You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much?

If you can afford it, you probably would pay that much, or more, to live longer, even if your quality of life wasn’t going to be good. But suppose it’s not you with the cancer but a stranger covered by your health-insurance fund. If the insurer provides this man — and everyone else like him — with Sutent, your premiums will increase. Do you still think the drug is a good value? Suppose the treatment cost a million dollars. Would it be worth it then? Ten million? Is there any limit to how much you would want your insurer to pay for a drug that adds six months to someone’s life? If there is any point at which you say, “No, an extra six months isn’t worth that much,” then you think that health care should be rationed.

See, some lives are worth saving, regardless of the cost, and some…eh, not so much. Thus their views on abortion and pulling the plug on people like Terri Schiavo. Those kinds of people, well, they’re unworthy, so we gotta get rid of them or let them die. But people like Tooki Williams, why, we simply can’t let them die, it’d be such a waste!

Conservatives believe that every single life, no matter what their status or situation, is worth saving, regardless of what it costs. We place a higher value on life than liberals do, regardless of what they say or do.

I know what liberals reading this are thinking: what about capital punishment? Well, we believe that capital punishment protects innocent lives in the long run. The guy is dead, he’s not going to be harming any more people. Now, we can argue that point until we’re blue in the face, but it’s not about revenge, it’s about making society safer. It’s a punishment that should — and usually does — fit the crime.

But back to this kook article in the liberal NYTimes, what this article is saying, in a nutshell, is that at some point in time other people should be able to make a decision as to whether you or your loved ones will live or die, and when. That’s too much power for anyone — especially the government — to have. But that’s exactly the kind of power the left is seeking over the people of this country. They want to tell you who your doctor is, where you can go for treatment, what kinds of treatment you can get, where you can send your kids to school, what kind of car you must drive, how much water your toilet uses, what kind of house you live in, how much energy you use, etc. The list goes on and on and on and on.

It’s not enough that the government is already screwing us over at every turn, liberals want to make sure we stay screwed for the rest of our natural born lives…and if they had it in their power (that is, if they actually believed in an afterlife) they’d probably find a way to screw us after death, too. The problem isn’t that the government has too little power or not enough to do, it’s that it has too much on its plate right now, things that it shouldn’t be doing in the first place.

Controlling health care is one of those things.

Thursday Morning Update: Others are starting to weigh in on this:

Hot Air
Say Anything
The Strata-Sphere
Winds of Change
Don Surber
Tammy Bruce
Sweetness & Light