Health care bait and switch
Obama and the Democrat Congress are back-peddling over the Government-run Health Care Rationing bill. It doesn't have the votes in the Senate and it's taking a beating in public opinion. What's wrong with this picture?
After all, Obama claims the so-called "public option" (tax-funded, government-run health insurance) isn't crucial. The statists would settle for something called a co-op instead. Is that better? What is a co-op plan?
As Michael F. Cannon explains, "Moderating" to a "co-op" proposal is an empty gesture, because a government-chartered health care "co-operative" is simply another government-run health program.
Well. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, inadvertently supported Cannon's argument: "You could theoretically design a co-op plan that had the same attributes as a public plan." Meaning that they already have one hidden away and it does indeed mimic a public plan.
And Obama? He has been on record since 2003 as an avid proponent of single-payer (government-run, tax-funded) health and he stealthily added: "Well, I think in theory you can imagine a co-operative meeting that definition."
Now really -- Are you gullible enough to ever believe them again?
Bait and switch
Mind you, Obama, his administration, and the Democrat Congress have already fabricated enough health care lies to shame Pinocchio -- you've seenObama knows he is losing the debate on Big Government health, and he needs a distraction. and heard them innumerable times now with your own eyes and ears.
Obama's offer to drop a Medicare-like public health insurance option for Americans under age 65 is neither a surprise nor believable, because it does nothing to change his devious plan for ultimate health care ownership.
It is nothing more than a tactic designed to muddy the current political waters.
Why? Because Obama knows he is losing the debate on Big Government health, and he needs a distraction. He no doubt hopes that we will marvel at how he moderated his approach because he understands that a majority of Americans don't want socialized medicine. Don't buy it for one second.
What we know vs what they say
The latest Rasmussen Report shows that 54 percent of Americans now think passing no health care reform at all is better than passing the current plan. The President and Congressional leaders54 percent of Americans now think passing no health care reform at all is better than passing the current plan. have responded by appearing to surrender. President Obama claims the so-called "public option" (tax-funded health insurance) isn't crucial.
Beware.
It will take years for the co-op to morph into the public option before ultimately morphing into a politically-controlled, single-payer Government-run Health Care Rationing system, but it will happen, as surely as night follows day.
It is important to remember that of which Mr. Cannon speaks, "On a practical level, it makes no difference whether a new program adopts a 'co-operative' model or any other. The government possesses so many tools for subsidizing its own program and increasing costs for private insurers, and has such a long history of subsidizing and protecting favored enterprises, that unfair advantages are inevitable."
Metastasized growth
And it is just as important to remember that we already find ourselves engulfed with statist programs that all started out incrementally, one seedling at a time, a mite here and a snippet there -- until we have become overwhelmed with monolithic bureaucracies and over-regulation by central authority.
That is exactly how this health care "co-op" scheme will most assuredly and stealthily grow into a vast, single payer Government-run Health Care Rationing bureaucracy.
As Thomas Jefferson once wrote to George Washington, "Delay is preferable to error." Congress should not vote on health reform until its members either promise to obey the wishes of the people who elected them -- or publicly admit to the political scam they are forcing on America.
One way or the other, they will get their just rewards at the ballot box.
Hype and Chains.
-- Hat Tip to the folks at Downsize DC.