If you’re not familiar with the ad featuring Will Ferrell and a variety of other brain-dead morons entertainers pimping the public option, it can be found here. Watching it will be painful, but it will help you appreciate the brilliance of the following: [HT Hot Air]
Despite attempts to resuscitate the public option, the Senate Finance Committee gave the Rockefeller and Schumer amendments some much-needed end-of-life counseling: In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate. Good news, of course, but it will probably [...]
Sullivan makes the following irrefutable point about the public option: It seems to me that a public option which allows the government to use its huge buying power to achieve cost cuts that no private company could manage would be a Trojan horse. Disappointingly, he adds the following: But a government option forbidden to use [...]
While it is gratifying to see the public option receive end-of-life counseling, the alternative now being floated by the White House and its congressional allies isn’t much better. Commenter terri points to a good post by Michael Tanner on insurance co-operatives: Opponents of a government takeover of the health care system should not be fooled. Government-run health care is [...]
Yesterday, we began hearing noises from the Dems to the effect that they are willing to compromise on the public plan issue. The more I think about it, the less I believe it. The bait-and-switch is an Obama/Democrat specialty. These are the people who proposed taxing health insurance benefits after trashing John McCain for a [...]
Kent Conrad, a key Senate Democrat, has made it clear that the so-called public option will not be included in any health care “reform” legislation passed by Congress: Look, the fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the U.S. Senate for the public option, there never have been. Meanwhile, Obama’s HHS Secretary has also [...]
The Democrats and the Obama administration plan to herd you into the pit of government-run health care in much the same way native Americans once herded buffalo off cliffs. Here’s how it works: Create a public plan that will compete with your private insurance company. Use your tax dollars to subsidize the premiums and coverage of the public plan. [...]
