Obama's Single Payer Song and Dance

There is a great deal about Obama's and the liberals health care plan about which the average working American is concerned and rightly so. One issue is the question as to whether those who want to keep their private health care plan can under Obama's massive take over of health care or not.

Obama insists that Americans who want to keep their private pay insurance will be able to do so. In June of this year in a speech Obama gave to the AMA he once again made that very promise.

"President Obama took his case for overhauling the health care system and allowing people to buy into a government-sponsored insurance plan directly to doctors Monday, delivering a nearly hour-long speech to the American Medical Association.

"Blaming the fear tactics of the past for the current failures of the health-care system, Obama repeatedly told his audience that no one would be forced to give up their private insurance.

" 'I know there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage,' he said. 'No one will take it away. No matter what.' "

From NBC's Athena Jones

"No matter what, " our trustworthy President insists. "No matter what."

Comforted?

You had better not be. This is a new song. This not what Obama said back when he wasn't facing huge opposition to his massive take over of our private lives. It is not what he said when he is making speeches to those he knows support him. His song and dance was quite different then.

Back in the dim history of 2003 then Candidate Obama was telling his supporters something else entirely. He did NOT make any of his " no matter what" promises in 2003. Then he said quite clearly that he supported a single payer universal health care program.

"I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that's what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that's what I'd like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House."

Obama in '03 (Uncut): I'd Like to See a 'Single Payer Health Care Plan'

That's not the only time Obama told the truth about what he really proposes to do with our health care system.

March of 2007, Obama the Truthful said in a speech he gave at the Service Employees International Union health care forum,

" My commitment is to make sure that we've got universal health care for all Americans by the end of my first term as president. I would hope that we can set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort, but I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out."

If Obama's own words cannot prove his duplicity, listen to what the leaders of the Democratic party upon whom Obama is relying to get this done are saying about this very issue.

Monday, July 26, 2009 in a rare moment of honesty Barney Frank, the destroyer of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, said this about Obama's Health Care and single payer system.

"I think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single-payer, and that's the best way to reach single payer."

Barney Frank: Public Plan Best Route to Single Payer Healthcare

The truth about Obama's Health Care system is addressed by the Wall Street Journal

"In its strongest version, the federal plan would receive direct cash subsidies, allowing it to undercut private insurers on consumer prices. This would quickly lead to "crowd out," the tendency of supposedly "free" public programs to displace private insurance. As a general rule, Congress has to spend $2 of taxpayer money to provide $1 in new benefits. More precise academic studies of expansions in Medicaid and the children's insurance program put the crowd-out effect somewhere between 25% and 60%."

The federal plan's distruction of private health care will not stop there.

". . . Democrats are planning to mandate the benefits that private insurers must provide, the patients they must accept, and how much they can charge. Oh, and a government plan would still have an implicit taxpayer guarantee a la Fannie Mae, giving it an inherent cost-of-capital advantage."

The Public Option Two-Step

Remember that President Obama has assured us that this isn't going to happen.

"I know there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage," he said. "No one will take it away. No matter what."

From NBC's Athena Jones

Right.

Again the Wall Street Journal exposes Obama and the Liberals lies on this topic.

"Jacob Hacker, now a professor of political science at Berkeley, came up with the intellectual architecture for the public option when he was a graduate student in the 1990s. "Someone once said to me, 'This is a Trojan horse for single payer,' and I said, 'Well, it's not a Trojan horse, right? It's just right there,'" Mr. Hacker explained in a speech last year. "I'm telling you, we're going to get there, over time, slowly."

"The real question the political class is debating now is how slowly, or quickly, it takes to get there. And how they're best able to disguise this goal -- ideally as a .compromise.' "

The Public Option Two-Step

The point? If Obama and the liberals get their way, we will all be forced into a government controlled single payer health insurance plan. There will be NO options. This idea that we will be able to keep our own insurance is a lie.

One must remember that a trademark of liberals is tell the people whatever they think the people want to hear because liberals believe that the people are too stinking stupid to know the difference.

Are they right about you?