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.