The state, the medical establishment, the pharmaceutical industry and the health insurance companies are creating a nanny complex that wants to control and supervise our existence from the cradle to the grave. This is not a conspiracy, oh no, it is far far worse: it is the result of a confluence of interests and policies. And it is all in our own best interest! Did you know that the World Health Organisation has declared two-thirds of the world population is suffering from 'mental problems'? Amazing, isn't it? They just stretched their definitions a bit, and presto, the WHO won't be out of a job (or income, or investment, or publicity) for the next 100 years...
And there is one of the big problems of socialism; since everyone has to pay for everyone else, they get to thinking that they own you, and become totalitarian in their desire to control what you do.

Democratic socialism is really libertarianism without the money, the guns and the charity as guiding principles for social life.
What do you mean by money and charity? If you liked (or at least didn't mind) guns, and were capitalistic and small gov't, we could form a political party!

Crazed Rabbit