Obamacare: The Problem with The “Public Option”
26 June 2009 | By LowellB in Health Care Reform, Lowell, Politics, TN Blog
EVERYONE WHO IS FOLLOWING the debate over the massive health care policy proposals in Congress, and is wondering what the term “public option” means, should read Hugh Hewitt’s post today. It tells you everything you need to know. Excerpt:
The fundamental dishonesty [in President Obama's defense of his plan] is that the president refuses to acknowledge that the government option/public plan will be subsidized by the federal government in a number of ways and thus will be cheaper for employers to choose for their employees, and they will choose it, sending tens of millions of Americans now covered by private insurers into the public plan, dramatically driving up federal costs while crippling the private sector insurance industry. Once dumped into the plan, the employees will wonder what happened to the president’s promise — often repeated — that “if you like your plan you can keep it.”
Read the whole thing, and send it to your friends. Most important, call members of Congress and the Senate. Hugh’s post gives you all the phone numbers.
Posted in Health Care Reform, Lowell, Politics, TN Blog | No Comments yet » | 
| 