The Democratic socialists are working fast and furiously to make sure their agenda is imposed on the American people before we can blink and say, "Wait a minute!" The latest Obamanation is the health care bill -- a thousand pages that no one has read and studied that absolutely must be signed immediately before it's too late.
And what's in the bill? Who knows? Have any of our representatives read it? Darn few, if any. But that won't stop these totalitarians from voting to impose it on us. (There are no doubt exceptions for them; there always are.)
But a "bombshell" is being reported that hopefully will sink the bill. On page 16, it carries a clear statement that private insurance will become illegal. This is what Hillarycare wanted to implement and the American people rejected it resoundingly during the Clinton years. Can Obama push it through? He seems pretty successful at promoting his socialist agenda so far.
Investors Business Daily ran
an editorial July 15th describing the "uh oh moment" in the 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....
What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.
Whatever happened to "choice?" And what other choices will be denied? Once the government is running things, will consumers be allowed to choose their own doctors, hospitals, treatment options, etc.? If we can't choose our own health plans, why would we expect other "choices" to be allowed. After all, the bureaucrats will be working hard to control costs. We've already heard the rhetoric about cost/benefit analysis and health care rationing for the elderly. Under Obama we are seeing an unprecendented assault against freedom and individual liberties on all fronts, but destruction of the best health care system in the world should terrify Americans. Is this the "change" the electorate wanted when they engaged in a lovefest with this political gigolo?
The hardball tactics instituted by the White House caused Republican Senator Judd Gregg (NH) to accuse White House operatives of practicing “the Chicago approach to governing.” He went on to say, “You’re talking about running over the minority, putting them in cement, and throwing them in the Chicago River.” Obama wants a vote on the health care bill before Congress recesses in August and the velvet gloves have been replaced with the brass knuckles. Why the hurry? Simple -- When you're trying to pass off a rotten piece of meat as a gourmet steak, the quicker you get the consumer to gulp it down, the less likely he is to notice it stinks and will make him sick!
