Wealth Redistribution for the Children

Whizbang and the Politico provide the historical behind-the-scenes perspective on the children's welfare health care program SCHIP.

Seems there was an interesting 1993 memo from Hillary's first socialized medicine debacle that reveals the incremental path of socialism:

Back in 1993, according to an internal White House staff memo, then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's staff saw federal coverage of children as a "precursor" to universal coverage.
In a section of the memo titled "Kids First," Clinton's staff laid out backup plans in the event the universal coverage idea failed.

And one of the key options was creating a state-run health plan for children who didn't qualify for Medicaid but were uninsured.

That idea sounds a lot like the current State Children's Health Insurance Program, which was eventually created by the Republican Congress in 1997.

"Under this approach, health care reform is phased in by population, beginning with children," the memo says. "Kids First is really a precursor to the new system. It is intended to be freestanding and administratively simple, with states given broad flexibility in its design so that it can be easily folded into existing/future program structures."

"Folded into existing/future program structures." That's exactly what they've been up to. The program wasn't expansive enough, so this whole debate has been about expanding it up to people making $83,000 a year. But even this is just a stepping-stone on the way to nationalized health care.

As has been point out by many people before, you can get almost anything in Washington to pass, if you will just do it "for the children."

That's how things have gotten as bad as they are. Socialists turn up the heat a little bit and we complain at first, but then figure, "Well, that's not so bad I guess." So they turn it up a little more, and we complain a little again before saying, "Well, that's not so bad either." The instructions on this maneuver read: repeat over and over and over until the desired effect is achieved.

Remember the proverbial frog being slowly boiled in the equally proverbial pot? The pot is socialized medicine, being slowly increased in our country, and you're the frog. By the time many people realize what a raw deal socialized medicine is, our collective gooses--or frogs--will already be cooked.