Health Care Socialism is almost upon us. All that the Imperial Democrats, who currently run Washington like the mob, have to do is close ranks in the Senate and bludgeon the opposition with their supermajority in order to pass one of the most ambitious government takeover plans in our history. What the Democrats want to do is take one industry, an industry already heavily influenced by the hand of the state, and control almost every aspect of it… including consumers. The health care reform plans that they are currently debating in the Senate include employer and individual mandates to buy health insurance. We need to be clear in understanding this fact: the federal government will have the power to force American citizens to buy the product of their choosing and to impose penalties if we do not comply. This is a targeted intrusion in the lives of all American citizens in order to satisfy political goals… this is this first domino in what we can expect to be a long line of government programs intended to erode the entrepreneurial and free character of our nation.

The truly insidious part of the health care reform plan is in the Democrats’ blatant lying about the costs of the new health care experiment that they are trying to set up. Many American’s are every day being fooled and confused about the costs of this new system, but the truth is plainly clear: health care reform will, in the short AND long run, cost this country more than a trillion dollars. The reasons are abundantly obvious: Democrats want to expand government subsidized care, penalize private insurance causing more people to be on government programs, and increase the taxes on every American by demanding that a certain percentage of their income be used to purchase health care. This means that regardless of the incessant hot air coming out of Obama’s and the rest of his cronies’ mouths, health care reform means that you will be poorer and America will be closer to bankruptcy. What else can you expect from the political party that just passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill without breaking a sweat, a spending bill that increases the funding across the board for government programs. That’s right, government programs are getting a revenue boost while everyday Americans are tightening their belts and making sure that they live within their budgets.

The last line of defense is the Republican Party, an irony given that they have also been fiscally undisciplined during their time in office… but the Democrats have been spending at a breakneck pace that would put the national debt at 85% the total gross domestic product of the United States by 2018. Let’s just hope that by 2012 we can start changing course.

-AG