Seeds Of Socialism (IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure)

IBD Editorials
August 19, 2009
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

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.

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NOTE: My emphasis in the article so everyone can see immediately what the progressive Democrats aka members of the Democratic Socialist of America are all about -- SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.