You know how president Obama keeps saying if you’re happy with your health care plan you can keep it? You know how president Obama keeps saying his “public option” is meant to increase competition and exist alongside private insurance? He’s a liar.

This from Investor’s Business Daily:

Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House’s "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington’s coverage.

Like everything else, this is no surprise. Proponents of ObamaCare have said outright that the “public option” is merely a Trojan horse for eventual single-payer health care.

Take a look:

(hat tip Gateway Pundit)

This is one of those stories that just makes you cringe.

Via TV Newser:

Breaking: KXLY in Spokane, Washington is reporting new CNN commentator Tony Snow was taken to the hospital this morning.

Snow canceled a series of speeches today at Eastern Washington University because of illness. He was treated for exhaustion at the hospital, says a source at the University.

Tony Snow has always been a class act whether on radio, TV, or in the White House. The Hot Joints wishes him and his family the best.