ObamaKare: You Will NOT Be Able To Keep Your Private Insurance

Back on June 16th, I wrote the post "ObamaKare, It's Not About Choice." I displayed this video:



I also wrote about the Cloward-Piven Strategy, the authors of which (Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven) state that their "goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change."

Sound familiar?

ObamaKare, again as I've written before here and here, absolutely, positively has to happen NOW before the US electorate awakens and actually realizes: the economy isn't getting better, none of these items will work, and each of these plans individually and collectively will bring down the nation.

THAT is why Mr Obama is so terribly strident about ramming ObamaKare down your throat, now - now - NOW!

Furthermore (here's a shocker -- hope you're sitting down for this one) Mr Obama is lying. He says you'll be able to keep your private insurance.

Investors Business Daily did something our politicians refuse to do: they read the proposed healthcare bill. From IBD editorials (thanks for the "heads-up," Tom's Place):

It's Not An Option
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

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.

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.

Gateway Pundit makes the same observation: it is about the murder of any and all private health insurance.

Even an "African American" blog, The Truth In Black & Right, writes about ObamaKare:

If you like your insurance, you can keep it . . . except it will be outlawed!"

And so Obama lies again, but is is unlikely that media will highlight this as they are too busy following the circus that is the Sotomayor confirmation hearings which we all know will end in her advancement to the Supreme Court with more than a little Republican support.

How is that our government deems it a public good, or remotely even constitutional, to effectively kill the market for private insurance?

The Truth In Black & Right sums it up wonderfully:

And so the so-called “public option” soon becomes the only option as private carriers hemorrage customers to the taxpayer subsidized government plan. The costs will skyrocket, rationing of care will ensue, and you can rest assured that the wealthiest (and most powerful) among us will still get boutique care, just as they always have. And the government will plant her heavy boot further into the lives of a heretofore free citizenry.

The Congressional Budget Office writes in its blog about Obama's spending:

Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projections, rising costs for health care and the aging of the population will cause federal spending to increase rapidly under any plausible scenario for current law. Unless revenues increase just as rapidly, the rise in spending will produce growing budget deficits. Large budget deficits would reduce national saving, leading to more borrowing from abroad and less domestic investment, which in turn would depress economic growth in the United States. Over time, accumulating debt would cause substantial harm to the economy.

The newest Zogby poll indicates that by a 50-42 margin, Americans oppose the House of Representatives' bill introduced July 14th.

Jon Kyl remarks:



I say: This bill, in concert with Cap & Tax, is the most naked and aggressive governmental power grab in the entire history of our nation. And these things in the midst of an economic recession!

Please GO HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION TO HELP STOP THIS DISASTROUS PLAN! You can also Call Congress -- at (202) 224-3121!

BZ