Ann Coulter - libertarian? - "There shall be a free market in health insurance."

[jamesd at echeque.com (James A. Donald)]

An Coulter says:
 > The only complicated part of fixing health care is figuring out how
 > to take care of the other 10 percent of Americans â?? the poor, the
 > irresponsible and the unlucky. And the only reason that is
 > complicated is because of fraud.
 >
 > Needless to say, the modern nanny state already guarantees that no
 > one will die on the street in America. The taxpayer spends more than
 > a trillion dollars every year on Medicare, Medicaid and Social
 > Security disability insurance so that everyoneâ??s health is taken
 > care of, from cradle to grave.

 > Policing fraud is difficult because: (1) the bureaucrats dispensing
 > government benefits believe there is no fraud and, if there is, itâ??s
 > a good thing because it redistributes income; and (2) we keep
 > bringing in immigrants for whom fraud is a way of life. (See â??Adios,
 > America! The Leftâ??s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World
 > Hellhole.â??)

I can confirm this from my visit to Canadian hospital.  It appeared
that I was the only person there who was not a bum or a drug addict.
I guess that all normal Canadians who needed to go to hospital went
across the US border.