Fox Guarding the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Advocates Dropping Care to Kids.

Isn’t it time we call out Republican politicians who put in place, not just critics of government departments, but advocates of doing away with those departments. This intuitively doesn’t make government better, but simply makes it incompetent and worthless, supporting the bile filled rhetoric that government is bad.

Gov. Walker has put another cancerous department head in place advocating pulling health care from kids. Dennis G. Smith's commentary is repugnant and sociopathic.  

Capital Times: Not many people in Wisconsin seem to know much about Dennis G. Smith, Gov. Scott Walker's pick for secretary of the Department of Health Services. Among the most provocative of his articles is a December 2009 essay for Heritage encouraging states to walk away from Medicaid completely rather than comply with the new health care law, which he calls a "federal takeover."

In another piece for The Heritage Foundation, he says the implementation of health reform is an impossible task for state officials. "Turning straw into gold" is how he puts it, borrowing from the fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin." And in an interview with "Fox Business," he claims that "the real purpose of the government's health plan is to overwhelm the private sector and push it out."

Isn't it amazing to think that anyone would want to push out the private sector...completely? All government all the time!!! Extremist nonsense, that scares the fearful base, like his conspiracy theory that reform was just one way to RAISE TAXES and take control:

In a hint of how he and his new boss might justify doing just that, the December article concludes: "The savings to state budgets are so enormous that failure to leave Medicaid might be viewed as irresponsible on the part of elected state officials."

The affordable care act is a "blueprint for failure," he writes, suggesting that some members in Congress may even want it to fail as a "justification for raising taxes and extending political control."

Insane!! But Smith has bigger schemes, one that could take down health care reform and save states money:

Smith advises state officials to fight back and reduce costs in ways that will be "surprising to the law's supporters." For example, he writes, the numbers of children receiving coverage through the federal SCHIP program could be reduced by millions, since they could lose eligibility when their parents have access to new family coverage. 

Smith is a crooked conservative fox, and a guy no one would trust with their private sector job. If this was his attitude ON the job, a guy who would "fix things" to fail, then what is he doing as head of a life saving department?

Oh, did you hear, government is bad.