Matt Yglesias, a blogger for the liberal Center for American
Progress,
cites Soviet-era life expectancy data to argue that, "the
dread U.S.S.R. actually did a perfectly decent job of providing
the sort of goods—health care, basic education, subways, nuclear
missiles, vast prison camps, satellite launch vehicles—that in
most democracies are provided by the state."
And yet it would be a "scare tactic" for me to argue that
liberals favor government-run health care.
(Via
Andrew Sullivan.)