Yes, in many cases in education it's the "free" money from the feds and in medicine it's the insurance. The worst thing is they're messing with kids lives in the over diagnosing.
In re the first battle re my son; although I kept him mostly free from the nanny-state, in order to work around the state coming after me, I did have to concede to having him at a very "special" school for special needs children. He was 3/3-1/2. After two months of being there, his special ed teacher, a truly gifted woman, pulled me aside and asked me why my son was there; she saw nothing wrong with him. Rather than involve her in my saga; I just shrugged.
My point is this, the taxpayers were footing the bill for this school and program. Democrats have been trying to not only force private companies to fund "day care"; but to force children into schools at younger and younger ages. I saw first-hand, that this was one way of accomplishing their goals - creating a "need" for getting kids into "programs" earlier and earlier.
I never took or looked for a single penny from the state; I was trying to avoid their clutches, rather than attempt in any way to "benefit" from their taxpayer Largesse schemes.
Then the school "closed", and all the students were assigned to a regular pub ed school, with classrooms and special ed teachers. And that's where the second adventure I relayed comes in. My son was there for just over a month. After I pulled him, the district head of "special education" called me, raking me over the cools, and telling me that if I pulled him out now, she'd see that he never got special ed status again! I said "Fine!" and hung up the phone. My son did not enter a classroom again, until he was 11 and qualified to enter a college classroom. (And yes, of course, I'd had to fight for that, too.)
And all during those years was that smarmy cocooning swampmucking dictum about homeschooling kids not being "socialized".
Liberals only want children socialized on their own terms: Dictating who the children shall socialize with, and how.
And I see a Democrat congress, and a potential Democrat President, and I see Dejavu.