North Dakota Department Of Health Announces New Dental Health Care Entitlement

It’s to supply dental work for poor kids, so don’t you dare think about calling it a bad idea. Because then you’d obviously be coming out in favor of poor kids having toothaches.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) State officials say a new partnership seeks to provide dental care to children from low-income families in North Dakota.
The program aims to develop a network of dentists to partner with Head Start. Officials say more than 3,600 children are enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Star in North Dakota.
The program will train teams of dentists and Head Start personnel to work in their communities.
Fargo Dr. Brent Holman has been named the coordinator of the effort. It’s called the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Head Start Dental Home Initiative.

I firmly believe that any effort by Democrats to institute sweeping health care reform that will leave us with a nationalized health care system will flop a la Hillarycare. Which is why the proponents of nationalized health care are pursuing their holy grail not through sweeping reform but instead incrementalism.
A good example is Obama’s plans to mandate health care coverage for all citizens at the federal level. Another example is the states constantly expanding government health care services, ostensibly for the impoverished, to include more and more people. Including those who don’t really need it. In North Dakota we have this dental program, and also an attempt by a state legislator to put all children in the state on government health care.
As time goes on so many people will give into the temptation of government health care that we’ll end up with a nationalized system without ever really having such a thing proposed in Congress or any of our state legislatures.
What’s particularly sad is that this abandonment of individual responsibility and embrace of big-government programs is happening in North Dakota. A state supposedly controlled by Repbulicans.