The Democrats have tried to impose socialized medicine for years. Hillary Clinton led the charge in 1992. The Johnson Administration successfully passed Medicare and Medicaid. The Truman Administration failed to pass a mandatory universal health insurance.

Now the Democrats are trying mandatory health insurance again. Be warned. Once these programs start, they are very difficult to get rid of…even if they are a complete failure. More likely, they grow in scope and in financial backing. The supporters of failed programs always claim that they need more money.

Can you imagine the outcry if someone even proposed eliminating Medicaid or Medicare? Advocates of such cuts would be demonized as heartless Nazis.

Other programs are just foot-in-the-door policies. The Child Health Insurance Proram (CHIP) program is a prime example of a foot that the Democrats are always trying to expand on. To a Democrat, somone who earns 3 times the poverty level is poor enough to receive CHIP money and rich enough to tax as “wealthy”.

That leaves us with a serious problem. The Democrats keep trying. All they need is one generation to agree to their socialist policies and that program will be forced on generations to come. Would anyone agree to the current social security program today? It is a horrible plan, but there are very few politicians who even discuss the problems and ideas for solutions are near extinct. It would never pass today, but it will never be reduced either.

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.