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Mark Davis is our resident conservative talk show host here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.  He’s also a columnist for the Dallas Morning News.  He has recently delved into Hillary’s new (old?) plan to force socialized health care onto the American people.  His latest article in the DMN echoes his statements on his talk show about the futility and deceptiveness of her plan.

In 1993 and today, she pays lip service to American health care, calling it the best in the world. In the same breath, she still proposes meddling in ways that can only denigrate that quality.

Her zeal is based on one of the great myths of modern times, the mistaken belief that we have a health care “crisis.”

To be sure, some people face monstrous health care costs without the safety net of insurance to protect them, but most of the 47 million Americans who lack health insurance have bypassed it by choice. Plenty of healthy young people and couples choose to forgo premiums to free up money for other things.

We can consider that a dangerous gamble, but it does not constitute some blight of victimization requiring a government solution.

Anyone may reasonably observe that the U.S. health care system has problems. But most of those problems rest in how health care is paid for, and none of those ills get better with layers of new federal obligations.

Democrats and liberals seem anxious to make the US health care system coincide with that of Canada and many European nations.  Hillary should have learned her lesson in 1993, but she obviously learned little.  Of course, that might be a misstatement.

In 1993, Hillary’s plan was backed by a document in excess of 1000 pages explaining the intricacies of her socialist vision.  Her latest “American Health Choices Plan” is little more than 10 pages of vague rubbish that outlines her concept without providing details.  Pressed for those details, Hillary simply asserts that the details will be negotiated with Congress.  Is that supposed to make me feel better?

She vastly underestimates the yearly cost of the plan at $110 billion.  You do the math in your head and see if that works out.  Furthermore, do you believe Congress could hold the costs down to that level?  Consider the fraud and inefficiencies in Medicaid and Medicare and tell me if you believe that any level of government can efficiently manage something as complicated as health care.  I think not.

Then consider that she would expect all people to buy into the system regardless of their desire to do so.  How is that a “choice?”  If I make $20 million a year and don’t wish to buy into this farce, why should I have to?  She even threatens the American worker by stating that the system might be enforced by denying a job applicant employment unless he or she is fully insured.  “Sorry you are fully qualified for this position, but we can’t hire you because you don’t have the federally-mandated insurance.”  What a ruse!

Hillary keeps the details of her plan hidden because she doesn’t want to the invite the discussion and inevitable opposition that will come with it.  She actually did learn from 1993.  The question is – have we?  If Americans buy into this trickery, we would be faced with the same sorry health care system that recently forced a Canadian MP to come to the US for breast cancer treatment.  Health care will be rationed, doctors will be few and far between, and the quality of our health care innovation will suffer dramatically.

Never have the stakes been higher in a presidential election.  From Iraq to health care, the stakes are raised each and every day.  You can be sure that, if Hillary is elected, conservatives will be forced to devote all of their political resources to combatting this type of insanity rather than focusing on legislation that will actually benefit the American people.