Memo To Pelosi: It Isn’t The Sticker Price
Don’t lose focus folks, the real problem with Obamacare is not just the added price paid by taxpayers.
It is the loss of freedom, liberty, and self determination. Oh yes, the “progressive” Democrats who support the government takeover of the health insurance system are trying to distract people by reducing the sticker price. Pelosi is all proud how her House Democrats reduced that sticker price under $900 Billion dollars.
The problem is that Government is still taking over the health insurance industry.
There are little to no reforms in the proposals and before the trigger effect is reached (as some versions have had) no attempts are required to mirror what other forms of insurance have been doing successfully for a very long time.
The claim by supporters of Obamacare, and most importantly, the public option (aka: co-ops/government run health insurance/socialized medicine) is that the private insurance companies just need some competition. A much simple, and less drastic way to do that, avoiding yet another American industry that Government takes over, is to simply bar states from mandating its citizens buy insurance from a homegrown company.
I am not going to say our system is perfect, but it is not worth throwing away just so Government can get their hands on control of it. Let’s talk about some real reforms, let’s take some small steps towards seeing if the system can be saved.
In other words, let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. Let’s not let them distract us by playing to our fiscal sanity.
The problem with Obamacare, Pelosicare, heck any kind of health care plan coming out of Washington, is that it is focused solely on Washington DC taking the reigns of all of our medical decisions and health care. Many of Obama’s own administration officials are on record, as is President Obama himself, in saying that they prefer single payer government run health care. And the steps being proposed in “fixing health care” only lead to that outcome.
Oh yes, the point of this is not to reduce the deficit, create competition amongst current providers. Not, this is all about destroying the current system so that the only option is a complete government takeover.
