By Richard J. Little
American Thinker, The bottom line for the individual citizen is that control over your own health care choices is gone. All significant medical, insurance, or cost questions will now be matters of politics. Groups that have significant political influence and can deliver votes or money will hold sway (think unions like the NEA and SEIU, big interests like Big Pharma, and pressure groups) over unorganized individuals .
The weakest citizens who cannot easily speak out come out the worst: the unborn, the elderly, veterans, and the disabled.
The stealth nature of the control of the health care system benefits the progressive politician in many ways. The Democrats can keep up the fiction that "this is not government-run health care" as a campaign selling point while at the same time creating a huge new shakedown source for campaign cash in the captive insurance industry. And if things get ugly with costs or medical care, they can still blame "greedy and evil" insurance firms and "the free market" when nothing of the sort was allowed to exist.
The level of control provided by all the regulations, mandates, and other features of ObamaCare will allow them to either continue the fiction or change a few regulations and push us into single-payer by default at any moment.
The cleverly crafted timing of implementation significantly reinforces this message. The public will see exactly nothing of tangible meaning happen for the near future. The supposed "benefits" of mandated insurance and the accompanying skyrocketing premiums (in Maine and Massachusetts, they are currently twice as high as the national average and are increasing at twice the rate of national medical inflation), higher taxes, longer waiting lines, and rationed care will not be happening until 2013 through 2018. This is the final trump card for the Democrats and the progressives. Since nothing overtly onerous will happen to the vast majority of Americans, they are counting on everyone settling back into their individual "comfort zones" of working, watching TV, and acclimating to the regime of health care. Continue reading
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There is little doubt in my mind that even without single payer this current law has already given control of the health insurance industry to the government, that's why they caved so easily in the debate---they knew they didn't need the single payer to reach their goal. Yes freedoms have been lost and they must be retrieved.
OIY!!! The govt will take good care of us: NOT!!
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