GUEST COLUMN FROM DAVID MALPASS: Public Option Bill After Healthcare Takeover?
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), the co-chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has now introduced a government-run option to the national healthcare exchange established by legislation President Barack Obama signed into law. That’s right. You read correctly. Not even a week passed since Obama basically nationalized the healthcare system, that now the CPC wants to add a Public Option. A Public Option to compete with a nationalized health insurance company? What a great deal for the government!
Do you know how many companies would love to not only create the rules, set the prices, and make the regulation for their competitors, but then send their own guys in to compete with the competitors that you already controlled? So, the very people who are on record as wanting to put the health insurance companies out of business have not only taken them over, not only have defined the terms of who they can and can’t cover, but have now begun to push to a government run option to compete with it…and they want us to believe that all the backroom deals, all the bribery, and all the strong arming to first shove an unpopular bill down the American’s throat, that basically nationalized the healthcare industry, now want a Public Option, that all of this is not a government takeover of healthcare? How dumb do they think we are? If recent comments by Bill Maher are any clue, they believe we are merely sheep to be shepherded by a wise and powerful man for our own good, because we are “too stupid to understand the issues.”
Remember also that all of this was to help the poor and uninsured, you know by limiting choices, taxing the job creators and wealth creators, and enslaving them by making them dependent upon the state. After being called kooks, whack jobs, and screw balls by the Democratic Party and the bought-and-paid for media, it turns out that we Republicans, Conservatives, and Libertarians, were right. That after nationalizing the private healthcare insurers and now, not even allowing the ink to dry, progressives are calling for a government run insurance option that will bankrupt the nationalized “private” health insurance companies, thus creating a single-payer universal healthcare system.
Moreover, they are even now still saying we are misleading the American people by telling the truth about what it is they have been and are now trying to do. With the strange silence by the mainstream media on the thug like tactics of SEIU, the corruption by a Marxist community organizing institution ACORN, and the unsupportable ad hominem attacks on the Tea Party Movement, one has to wonder if there isn’t some sort of “bias” going on here, or am I the only one who believes that the left would be apoplectic if any of the corrupt bargains and deals perpetrated by this administration and the Democrats, were done by Bush and the Republicans?
Don’t they realize that after they nationalize everything else, that they will be the next target? That the only reason they have not made a move on the media is that they have been the cheerleaders of the administration (can someone say MSNBC?).
Let us also not forget, since we are talking about the loss of jobs, freedom, and the private sector, that buried inside this now-passed healthcare bill was the nationalization of the student loan program. That’s right, Uncle Sam, who in no way would ever dole out loans to people based upon race, political leaning, or income level, now controls your college student’s loans. I can’t possibly imagine how any of this could go wrong…you know…excluding the fact that the federal government will be running it.
After taking over the banking industry, though not yet completely, the auto industry, the housing industry (again, not completely), and the health insurance industry, they have now taken over the student loan industry. Oh and fear not my Marxist comrades, they are already in the process of taking over the energy sector, and on recruiting nearly 30 million new Democratic voters via Amnesty. This all but ensures that the complete nationalization of America will become a reality in just a matter of years.
The “Progressives” have it all figured out: get as many people dependent on the government as possible, employ as many union members to very lucrative government jobs that include amazing benefits, and provide SEIU with new union members (aka Democratic voters) with Amnesty too. This will, of course, counteract the outrage felt by the American people at the audacity and arrogance of their government – all resulting in the Socialist utopia that the “Progressives” have longed for.
Ignoring all the obvious flaws and fallacies that are involved in the belief that the government is good at running anything that doesn’t require force and destruction, let us suppose that all of this is being done with the best of intentions and not on the fundamental transformation of our country, and assume that corporations and insurance industries are evil and that we need big government to step in, regulate them, and keep them in line, I have just one small question for our “Progressive” friends: If big government protects us from big-oil, big-tobacco, big-insurance, big-business, and big-pharmacy; who protects us from big-government?
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I’ll leave a few comments I suppose:
1) there is not one single innocent party involved in the healthcare debate. The rising cost of healthcare is a reality that was neglected and ignored by the Republican Party for years. In the absence of real action and reform, the Democrats stepped in and offered a solution. I feel no pity for the medical professionals - the industry is rife with fraud and abuse of the various insurance programs (private, Medicare and Medicaid). I feel no pity for the health insurers - they’ve created a series of oligopolies checkered across every region of the U.S. I feel no pity for the foolish Republicans who lost the biggest battle of the decade. The only ones that I feel an ounce of pity for are those who stand to be negatively impacted by this program - and I blame the insurers, the medical professionals and the politicians who helped contribute to it.
Hopefully the right leadership will step in and truly reform our healthcare system; however, I have little confidence that leadership will ever emerge.
My thoughts on banking and the auto industry:
Let’s face it, some of the most evil souls darken the doors of Goldman, Deutchebank and others every day. Much of the troubles we face in our banking and housing industry today are as much a component of irresponsible decision making on the consumer level as it was on the manipulation and deliberate delivery of misinformation on the seller’s level. There are are few innocent parties involved in the collapse of the housing sector. Is regulation of the banks the only solution? Absolutely not - that’s not to say that oversight and reform is a terrible thing, however. I do not agree with this administration’s efforts at aggressively regulating banking industry though.
On the future of our nation:
I have much more faith in our system of government than most. The same individuals who trumpet the constitution as being just shy of divine are the same ones who seem to lack faith in its ability to combat tyranny from within. While still imperfect, our system of checks and balances coupled with the frequency of occurrence and honesty of the electoral process, no one man can usurp the foundations of our constitutions. And no present group of terrifying “Progressives” are able to wield enough power to do so either. November 2010 will deal a frighteningly powerful blow to this administration and its ability to enact legislation (think ‘94). And 2012 will likely result in a complete change in regime and a hard shift to the right once again.
No need to fret (or cry as some individuals often do) about the future of our Republic. Remain confident that its power to conquer the foes of democracy that occur from within will continue to endure.