The best thing for America is for the left to ram their risky healthcare scheme through as quickly as possible.
The sooner America sees how horrible the leftist policies of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are the sooner we can get them out of power.
The Obama Healthcare putsch is almost the perfect example of an ideologically driven agenda disregarding any sense of reality or practicality in legislation. Every scheme, every bill, seems to get worse than the last. From the specter of IRS enforcement to mandates with draconian fines, every new Democrat bill gets deeper into the quagmire of everything Americans hate about government. Which is why Healthcare keeps dropping in the polls; Americans are expressing their disagreement with what Democrats are bound and determined to pass no matter how much opposition there is.
In fact, rather than addressing the underlying issues leftists like Pelosi think that the public are just too stupid to understand what’s good for them. If the people are rejecting ‘the public option’, then let’s just rename it. The public can’t possibly be smart enough to know that there’s no difference between the plan labeled, “public option,” and the same plan labeled, “consumer option.”
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi’s side and used the term “competitive option.”
Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or competitors. ~breitbart.com
Incredible.
I’m actually a little surprised at how tone deaf, partisan, and ideological Democrats have turned out to be with total one party control of the Federal Government. Especially after getting elected by campaigning as moderates and centrists. Which also explains why many moderates are now leaning conservative just as they were back in 1994. (Just keep attacking Fox News guys.)
The Ultimate Purpose of ObamaCare
The purpose of any bill that they eventually come up with is to create the conditions for a public-only option. After listening to two liberal commentators on NPR discuss the evils of Walmart and how they put “mom-and-pop” stores out of business by lowering prices (!$?), I realized that this is the strategy Democrats are trying to implement with Healthcare. The Federal Monopoly comes in with a low-cost public option, heavily subsidized, with a fine on individuals and small businesses if they don’t provide the kind of coverage dictated, and thus nearly everyone has no choice but to go with the public option. The out of pocket costs might seem lower, but our entire society will pay, and pay, and pay.
The cost of this ideological white whale will drag down the US economy even more. (Think Obamavilles all across America.) Costs will go up, not down, and in the end we will all have worse healthcare quality with even worse service than we have today. Which, with the low quality of healthcare service today would be saying something. But if anyone can bring the service level down by taking over an entire industry it would be the Federal Government.