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Barney Frank: Public Option Best Way To Achieve Single Payer Health Care
I and many others have said Obama’s “public option” government run health care plan is nothing but a Trojan horse for Canadian style single payer health care.
I’ve been called a conspiracy theorist, a nut, a fascist, a liar, and many other things even though I’ve provided stone cold proof.
However, some Kool-Aid drinking drones need further proof, so I’ll just let Barney Frank take it from here…
(hat tip Mark Levin)
Audio: Glenn Beck Goes Ballistic On Caller
Beck gone wild…
I don’t blame Glenn at all for this. It’s so frustrating trying to talk to Kool-Aid drinking drones who think they’re informed because they watched a dumbass Michael Moore movie.
Anybody with an ounce of grey matter between their ears can use the Internet to research what the realities are of government run health care.
I used to be in favor of a government option until I looked into it. It’s a f*cking disaster.
If you’re too lazy to research, then take a look at this 20-minute video from Steven Crowder over at PJTV.
Crowder was raised in Canada but now lives here. He traveled back to Canada to get medical treatment and brought his camera along.
It’s the most revealing documentary I’ve seen about the Canadian health care system. Watch it and experience the joys of free health care.
(hat tip Hot Air)
House Health Care Bill Outlaws Private Insurance
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)
Obama’s Own Doctor Thinks ObamaCare Reeks
President Barack Obama’s doctor of 22 years until he entered the White House thinks the Obama health care plan sucks.
Dr. David Scheiner doesn’t think Obama really understands what’s happening on the ground in the medical profession.
…he worries about whether the health care legislation currently making its way through Congress will actually do any good, particularly for doctors like himself who practice general medicine. "I’m not sure he really understands what we face in primary care," Scheiner says.
Scheiner takes a few other shots too. Looking at Obama’s team of health advisors, Scheiner doesn’t see anyone who’s actually in the trenches. "I have a suspicion they pick people from the top echelon of medicine, people who write about it but haven’t been struggling in it," he says.
Scheiner also takes issue with the president’s choice of abortion extremist, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be the Health and Human Services secretary. He says Sebelius used to be the chief lobbyist for the Kansas trial lawyer’s association.
After making a lot of sense, Dr. Scheiner himself goes off the rails and begins rapidly losing credibility…
What should the president be focused on? Scheiner thinks that a good health reform would be "Medicare for all," a single-payer system where the government would cover everyone and pay for it by cutting out waste in the system. "A neurosurgeon gets paid $20,000 for cutting into the neck of my patient. Have him get paid $1 million a year instead of $2 million or $3 million. He won’t starve," Scheiner says.
I agree that Obama’s current health care proposal is a disaster. However, replacing it with “Medicare for all” is about the nuttiest damn thing we could do.
Single-payer has proven to be a failed system in Europe. Old people are denied certain treatments to save money if a bureaucrat decides the treatment may not save them anyway.
Many of the top life-saving cancer drugs are not available to people in the U.K., because they’re too expensive.
I could spend the entire day listing the pitfalls of a socialized medicine.
Single-payer systems ration health care and deny everyone the kind of quality health care that the United States has always been known for.
Having said that, anyone with a lick of sense knows the ObamaCare public/private plan is nothing but a Trojan horse to lead us to a single-payer system.
Here’s proof:
Dr. Scheiner should keep his spirits up, because Obama still has three and a half years left to make this great nation into a failed state.
-Chris Jones
Video: A Look At Canadian Health Care
(hat tip Hot Air)
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