Uncle Ken Speaketh in Parables

I thought that Sredni Vashtar sounded like a Hindu goddess, so I figured that Wikipedia would have something on it. Come to find out, it's a famous story that I had never heard of. There's lots of famous things that I have never heard of and, if any of them are like that Sredni Vashtar story, I'm glad. What a bunch of creepo crap!

Now that you mention it, I do remember when they were calling it "Socialized Medicine", but I don't remember when was the last time I head it called that. I think it's the Brits who call their program "National Health Care", and I'm pretty sure that the Canadians call theirs "Medicare". I seem to remember Wikipedia grouping them all together under the heading of "Public Health Care", but that was some time ago so they may have changed it by now.

I didn't look up "when the big girl burned her fingers" because it sounded like an Uncle Ken original to me. I think it refers to when Hillary was First Lady, back in the 90s, and her husband put her in charge of a committee that was supposed to come up with some kind of socialized medicine and instead produced something very similar to Obama Care, but of course it wasn't called "Obama Care" because nobody had ever heard of Obama in those days. Come to think of it, that may have been the last time I heard the phrase "socialized medicine". Since then it has been called a lot of things, but socialized medicine is not one of them. Be that as it may, Hillary's plan went down like a submarine, only to resurface years later as Obama Care. I understand that, in between, there was something called "Romney Care", but that was just in one state, either Massachusetts or Connecticut, I forget which. I have heard that they've also got some kind of state health care plan in Hawaii, but I don't know what they call it.

I don't watch CNN, so I have no idea what Uncle Ken is talking about there, but it doesn't sound like anything I would be interested in, so I won't be looking that up any time soon.