"This week, Democrats on the Congressional Ways and Means committee held a hearing on their one-size-fits-all, "Medicare for all" proposal. With this move, they are fully embracing the government takeover of healthcare. The promises of “free” education and “free” healthcare touted by Democrats sound good, but they come at a steep price.

"The cost of this lower-quality, less-choices program is high — so high that doubling everyone’s income taxes would still not generate enough money to pay for it. But then beyond the monetary cost and lower quality of care, the unsaid component of a system in which the government has total control is the loss of freedom itself.

"An example of this exists a mere 90 miles from Florida’s southern coast. Floridian Enrique Padron recently shared his experience of being born and growing up in Castro-led Cuba with “free” government provided education and healthcare. His home had a dirt floor and no insulation or running water. Their bathroom was a hole-in-the-ground shared with six other families. They didn’t have the ability to fix their home because their government-provided salary was approximately $6 per month, and there was no access to a hardware store to purchase the tools needed.