Back when Hillary-care was on the table, part of that nationalization strategy was that “gun violence” was to be declared a national “health care” issue, which would in effect have made a new federal gun control authority of the health care system. To this day, a kid taking a sports physical for school gets asked if there are any firearms in the house, and if any of them are loaded. The rationale is the same– physicians as home “health” case-workers would have tremendous power, especially as coupled with CPS and similar organizations. That no physician has any training in firearms, self-defense, home risk assessment, or home risk management, and that they’re not certified or insured to offer such advice or services, is rarely considered. This is about a massive power ploy and nothing else, and they’re still working on it.

Therein we get only a tiny little clue as to why health care nationalization (and nationalization of anything else they can get their paws on) is so attractive to the left.