Journalistic smartasses like my colleagues and me have been having a lot of fun with a recent editorial in the Investors Business Daily to the effect that Obama's health care plan would create a big system of state-run eugenics.
It uses the United Kingdom's health care system as a cautionary example, statiing:
"People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."
The joke, of course, is that Hawking is a lifelong resident of the U.K.
When discussing this with colleagues, I speculated that the editorial writer might react to that news by saying "What? But he doesn't have an accent!"
Man, I crack myself up!
