Ah, that shining city on a hill -- Venezuela

This article Central Planning Won't Fix Health Care says it all when it comes showing where socialist policies lead. Price controls, one of the left's favorite tools to use, from the failures of which they never seem to learn. Hugo Chavez has imposed strict price controls on basic commodities and guess what, surprise, surprise these commodities are become scarce. Folks in Venezuela have to wait in line for basic items like food and toilet paper. This is the sort of shining city on a hill toward which our current president would like to lead us. This article talks about the price controls imposed by Obamacare, for instance.