The Colorado Health Care Reform Commission has done one strikingly innovative thing in its vigorous embrace of the usual quack nostrums for improving American health care by expanding government control.

In the course of cozying up to the evils of an individual mandate, community rating, and guaranteed issue, it has decided to recommend that to enforce the mandate the state will

1. Require proof of health insurance coverage before anyone can do anything at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

2. Require proof of health insurance coverage with income tax filing and school enrollment.

3. Penalize people who were uninsured by collecting a full year of unpaid insurance premiums when they file their tax returns.

4. Create a central registry for the uninsured.

Here’s the innovation: “undocumented residents,” can send their children to school, register cars, pay their taxes, and drive like everyone else. However, they will be exempt from the individual mandate.

Want to stay out of the registry, drive your car, and save by paying cash for health care instead of paying the sky high health insurance premiums created by the guaranteed issue and community rating laws necessary to fund all of the ambitious health care for all schemes?

Become an “undocumented resident.”

Schools don’t ask and don’t tell, Eliot Spitzer is working on a driver’s license for you in New York State, and if the Dream Act ever passes your child will be eligible for in state tuition at any state college in the U.S.

Lose your papers and save!