Obama's Health Care Reform debacle
President Barack Obama has been pushing socialized healthcare since most Americans were introduced to him on February 10, 2007. Then the euphemism was Universal Healthcare. There was also Universal Mandatory Coverage or Universal Coverage or just Mandatory Coverage, and then we moved on to Single Payer. Single Payer is held up as the ideal by the left, but the President doesn’t want to call it that just yet, so he is comfortable with his Healthcare Reform or the Public Plan euphemism. They all mean the same thing; Higher taxes.
The President’s critics range from bloggers to far left columnist Paul Krugman at The New York Times.
Power blogger and best-selling author Michelle Malkin , lays out incident after incident on the road that leads to the socialized/universal/single payer healthcare plan.
Why is it so important to nail down what the President is really talking about? Because behind the scenes, when few are paying attention, the mask of ‘choice’ comes off and we hear exactly what the Healthcare Reformers, like Dr. Jacob Hacker, want to do; they want to destroy the private insurance market.
This is not the policy the President keeps promising to deliver. He claims he favors the idea that Americans will have a choice, but according to the policies biggest supporters, there will be no choice and it should be obvious.
"Well it's not a Trojan horse (for single payer) right, it's just right there. I'm telling you" - Dr. Jacob Hacker
The fact that ABC has not challenged the President forcefully with these statements made by prominent supporters of single payer care, speaks to the accusations of their providing the President with an infomercial on policy. Also, ABC may want to weed out any plants in their audience such as single payer activist posing as an attendee, Paulette Garin.
After a week of Obama trying to light a fire under Congress to write a plan, so that he can’t get blamed for any missteps, the Democrats in Congress are feeling a bit nervous about their ambitious agenda for this year, and many are starting to voice their concerns.
“There is a risk of not doing anything by trying to do too much,” Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said. “I think there is going to be a narrowing-down as time goes on.”
The best arrow in Obama’s quiver right now is his astroturfing virtuoso David Axelrod. Axelrod has the PR firm with the muscle to attempt a public opinion coup that will give socialized healthcare a much needed boost, so the Democrats can continue to struggle through the process of delivering the mandatory coverage promise.
Obama’s attempts to appease both the left and corporations on this issue are costing him with the more progressive members of the American left. Obama himself wants to remain in the middle, insisting that he will offer a choice to Americans, despite what some of his own supporters say. He wants to remain in the driver’s seat so he can handle damage control and crush any attempts to point out the job losses related to the destruction of the private health insurance industry.
Many Americans are new to the healthcare discussion, and they think Obama is striking out on a new frontier in American politics. They should know however, that this issue is older than Obama himself, and many former Presidents have successfully argued against it.
Whatever plan is hammered out in Congress, let’s see if they read the bill before voting on it this time. Not hire a speed reader like they did with the Energy & Climate Change Bill, but actually look at what we are getting for our tax dollars. That isn’t too much to ask, is it?
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Michelle Malkin is a "best selling author" but, Paul Krugman is a "far left columnist?" *cough* (Nobel Prize in Economics)
Your article also left out the tiny little fact that 70% of Americans want healthcare reform.
Paul Krugman with the Nobel Prize in Economics, who can't save his newspaper. Krugman's paper had to have a Mexican Billionaire bail them out.
New York Times Gently Swats Its Mexican Billionaire Savior - Gawker
Malkin is not eating off of foreign Billionaires.
Your article is misleading. Every industrialized nation has universal health care, single payer, national health system, whatever you want to call it.
What it means is that regardless of job description, pre-existing conditions, or economic status, when a citizen of any other industrialized country in the world gets sick they have the right to a doctor and medicine for free. Why are we punishing those unfortunate Americans who have cancer by forcing them into bankruptcy. btw, 50% of all bankruptcies in this country are caused by medical bills.
We deserve better. Our citizens deserve better. Why are we so supportive of insurance companies?
If you are uninsured and does not have insurance, you should check out the website www.UninsuredAmerica.blogspot.com -California
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