Some Minnesota legislators are proposing an ambitious project that could lead the way to a government takeover of health care. Citizens' Council on Health Care (CCHC) is a leading opponent, and its web site is a source of good information about the plan, featuring a video presentation from Twila Brase, president of CCHC, and Rep. Tom Emmer, a leading legislative opponent of the plan.

Emmer recommends reducing the number of mandates on insurance policies and enhancing competition in the health care marketplace.

Brase, meanwhile, says that the proposed health insurance exchange will eventually control health care in the state. She also expresses concerns about intrusive data collection.

The CCHC site also has final report of an advisory committee that paved the way for the proposal as well as a dissent from the report.

The Minnesota Free Market Institute, meanwhile, says that "the most disturbing sections of the Transformation Task Force report are those that expand the concept of 'public health' to include virtually any behavior with an impact on the cost of health care. But do Minnesotans really want to live in a state that requires 'the active engagement of employers, schools, communities and the health care system' to enforce healthy behavior?"

But that's what you get when government controls the spending.