Thread: IBD Article: Seeds of Socialism

Here's an article from the Investor's Business Daily that reveals the underlying Socialist Trojan Horse of the proposed Health Care Bill:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticle ... 4814607556

Seeds Of Socialism
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Health Care: As the president flips, then flops, on his government-run option, the words of leftist activists come back to haunt them. A "public option" was always a Trojan horse for socialized medicine.

It's never wise to underestimate Washington's capacity to succeed in doing harm, but right now it looks like the Obama administration has painted itself into a corner on health care legislation.

The public has caught on to the threat of a government-run health plan unfairly competing with the private plans that nearly 90% say they are happy with. The people know that artificially low premiums, coupled with onerous new regulations for private insurers, can destroy the private health insurance industry and leave us all with no choice but one big, federally managed medical DMV.

As the vox populi rises at town hells across America, the left is saying: No public option, no ObamaCare. Liberal congressmen and senators are getting an earful from the pro-single-payer crowd and may refuse to vote for a plan not containing that feature.

Fearing the defection of moderate Blue Dog Democrats, the administration began downplaying the importance of a public option. But after an uproar from its liberal base, the White House seems to have switched back.

Why is the left so wedded to the public option? Because the idea's purpose, from conception, was to trick the country into taking the road toward socialized medicine.

As American Prospect Executive Editor Mark Schmitt notes on his magazine's blog, Roger Hickey of the leftist Campaign for America's Future (CAF) as early as 2007 "went around to the community of single-payer advocates" selling the public option as a ruse.

Hickey pointed out in a New Jersey speech, for instance, that "the hard reality, from the point of view of all of us who understand the efficiency and simplicity of a single-payer system, is that our pollsters unanimously tell us that large numbers of Americans are not willing to give up the good private insurance they now have in order to be put into one big health plan run by the government."

When ill-fated Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, at CAF's behest, embraced a public option on NBC's "Meet the Press," said Hickey, "he was very clear that his public plan could become the dominant part of his new health care program, if enough people choose it."

The Obama and Hillary campaigns soon also embraced a public option. The political purpose of all three, according to Schmitt: "convince the single-payer advocates, who were the only engaged health care constituency on the left, that they could live with the public option as a kind of stealth single-payer, thus transferring their energy and enthusiasm to this alternative."

Schmitt adds that "the downside is that the political process turns out to be as resistant to stealth single-payer as it is to plain-old single-payer."

The people, in other words, have found out that the president's health care "marketplace" would actually plant the fast-growing seeds of socialized medicine.

The American people will be forced to pay for a health care system they don't want and even after paying into the system, they may be denied crucial care. The illegals population will not have to prove they are in our country legally, they simply go in for medical treatment no questions asked. Unlike American citizens, Illegals and/or visa workers don't have to sign up and/or pay for health care. The American people get stuck paying for them. This reminds me of stories of people in communist countries being forced to dig their own graves.

So, people from around the world will be able to come to our country, and get serious health care procedures like dialysis courtesy of the American tax payers, while our own people, particularly seniors will be turned down for care, and left to die.

Check our archives from C-span on Immigration and Health Reform.

http://www.cis.org/IllegalHealthcareReform

http://www.cis.org/Announcement/HealthCarePanel
http://www.cis.org/HealthCare-Immigration