Fat gaps in my teeth

What in the world was Matt Yglesias thinking when he decided this morning to do a post about how the Soviet Union did, and Cuba still does, a good job of providing health care? Is that an argument that is going to convince Americans that (1) the Obama ideal of universal health care is a positive objective, and (2) Obama's not a socialist? First, it's apples and oranges - no proposals on the table resemble any communist-type health care structure. Worse, it's tone deaf. Notwithstanding - or because of - the commentary that under the communists, "everyone’s dirt poor and generally leave crappy lives with few goods."

Of course the wingnut conclusion from that is going to be that Obama wants to turn us into a communist country, and that, once he's done with healthcare, he's going to make us all dirt poor and lead crappy lives with few goods. And we'll all have bad orthodontics.

Yglesias usually has more sense than that.