An Alternative Stealth Single Payer Scheme
Our previous analysis of the chaotic Senate health care process noted the obvious: It’s simply impossible to believe that Congress has the wisdom to create, in 2,000 pages, the best possible system of health insurance and medical services delivery.
ObamaCare
Even if one is blinded by faith and believes an elite dozen can huddle in a Washington conference room and charter command-and-control bureaucracies that will achieve better results than the private sector, one would still have to overlook the tragically comical process of politically motivated deal-making on the Senate floor!
As if to help us demonstrate the absurdity of it all, Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader and principle author of the Health Care bill hopped in front of the cameras late Tuesday night to announce “a broad compromise.” It seems ten Senators had just cranked two new schemes that would be major alterations to the bill written by the elite dozen in the conference room.
- Make Medicare available for “buy in” to people as young as 55. (The current minimum age is 65.)
- Replace the so-called “public option,” a government owned and operated insurance company, with some sort of non-profit but privately owned contrivance.
Medicare
On Monday The Reid bill partially funded new health care entitlements and bureaucracy by further reducing the already below-market fees Medicare pays to doctors and hospitals, a change that would surely result in fewer doctors being willing to accept Medicare patients at all.
But on Tuesday, if it meant another vote or two, Senator Reid was ready to accept as many as 30 million new people into the Medicare program! Astounding!
Public Option to Medicare to Single Payer?
The most liberal faction of Congress favors “single payer” health care, meaning everyone’s medical services would be paid for by government. The liberals would prohibit private insurance and even prohibit paying cash for services not covered by the government plan, or to jump ahead of a waiting list. The single payer faction has agreed to the Reid bill because it includes start-up of a government owned/operated insurance company called “public option” that in the future could be subsidized by taxpayers enabling it to under-price private insurance companies and drive them out of the health care market, creating a de facto single payer.
The second part of Reid’s “broad compromise” would replace the government owned/operated insurance company with some sort of non-profit, but privately owned institution. The details are not yet public.
This idea by itself should be a deal killer for the single payer supporters, without whose votes nothing can pass Congress. But appears they would accept expansion of Medicare, which is a single payer program for seniors. Apparently, they would stake their hopes for a single-payer future on a continuous expansion of Medicare until it covers the entire population, or everyone who isn’t already covered by some other government program.
Congressman Anthony Weiner, one of the most emphatic proponents of single payer, fired off a mass email applauding Medicare expansion:
Expanding Medicare is an unvarnished, complete victory for people like me. It’s the mother of all public options. We’ve taken something people know and expanded it. Never mind the camel’s nose, we’ve got his head and neck under the tent.
The details are still sketchy, but there is one remarkable element of the emerging plan: the expansion of the smart single-payer health care plan that serves over 43 million Americans—Medicare. Extending this successful program to those between 55 and 64, a plan I proposed in July, would be the largest expansion of Medicare in 44 years and would perhaps get us on the path to a single payer model.
Reid has sent these ideas to the Congressional Budget Office for estimates of cost. There is no way to predict the next installment of this melodrama. But if any part of the Reid bill becomes law, federal bureaucracy and regulation will become the dominant force in every American’s health care.
With many conservatives, including Michelle Malkin, saying the so-called “compromise” on health care reform equates to a “single-payer” health care model, I feel compelled to point you to eight posts (with videos) that I published soon after “crashing” — and recording — all six of the single-payer power brokers who spoke during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Nov. 14-15 in St. Louis. I urge you to watch those videos and read about them here.
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CRITICAL!! From jacksmith – Working Class
My Fellow Americans and People Of The World
A strong Government-run MEDICARE like Public Option is CRITICAL!!
A Medicare Buy-in at 55 is a GOOD! idea. But!, not a substitute for a strong Medicare like public option CHOICE for everyone. Nor is the (FEHBP). Without a strong public option on day one the Senate health-care bill is a disaster for the American People and the World. Therefore you must KILL!! it. Without a strong public option the health-care reform bill is MUCH WORSE! than what we have now, and what we have now is a catastrophe. SO YOU MUST KILL!! IT.
What is proposed in the Senate is the worst case scenario for health-care reform. It would shift trillions of taxpayer, public and private dollars into the hands of the private insurance industry (The single most costly, deadly and dangerous product sold in America). And it would compel by law millions of Americans to financially support this oxymoronic criminal enterprise. You cant have a MANDATE WITHOUT A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION CHOICE!
You will have NO! realistic way of controlling cost and quality. Cost will continue soaring through the roof bleeding the American people dry, and KILLing our economy. And our quality of healthcare will continue to decline below our current ranking of “WORST! quality of healthcare delivery in the developed World”.
H1N1 IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
I have to tell you now that the H1N1 virus is a man-made WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION! and TERROR! It is a WEAPONIZED version of a flu virus. It has swept the planet infecting millions. And causing a global pandemic that has killed tens of thousands, and injured millions.
The H1N1 virus is the product of the DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN PRIVATE FOR PROFIT MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! It was released in the U.S. in Texas in early January of this year, but not recognized until around April in California. The reason I know this is because when it came to America, it came to see me FIRST! How sweet…
This was around the time the MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! assaulted the Whitehouse with all their devils deals to cripple and weaken YOUR! healthcare reform. Especially your right to have a single payer system like HR676 (Medicare For All) which most of you wanted.
They don’t even want you to have your HUGE!!! compromise position of a strong government-run MEDICARE like Public Option CHOICE. To compete with their DISGRACEFUL, GREED DRIVEN, MURDEROUS, PRIVATE FOR PROFIT PRODUCT (The single most costly, deadly and dangerous product sold in America).
They also wanted to take away your rights to have your government meet it’s responsibility to use it’s full power to regulate, negotiate, and control drug cost, healthcare cost and quality. Something every other civilized country in the developed World has done for it’s people. Their Greed! moral degeneracy and lack of patriotism knows no bounds.
Many of you will remember that before we knew about H1N1. I posted a open message to the President and Congress warning them to be vigilant about their health, and cautious about any medical advice they received. As I said then “they will not hesitate to try and hurt you”.
The U.S. and the World have been under a BIOLOGICAL TERROR ATTACK! for over a year now. It is CRITICAL that We The People Of The United States take away control of our healthcare system from the GREED DRIVEN MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!
For our own National security, and the security of the world.
A Strong, government-run, MEDICARE like Public Option CHOICE. Available to everyone on day one, with the full unfettered power of the federal government to regulate, negotiate, and control cost and quality. Would be the most workable way to deal with this global crisis at this time. Including patent suspensions as needed for national security or the greater good.
As an American I invite the peoples of the World to help us fix our healthcare crisis. And bring pressure on our government to meet it’s responsibility to protect global security by controlling, and removing the corrupting influence of GREED and the PRIVATE FOR PROFIT motivations from healthcare in the U.S. and around the World.
I call on the governments of the World and the global intelligence community to track down these MASS MURDERERS, and bring them to justice. CONNECT THE DOTS! And be vigilant that they don’t slip in another viral strain on you under the cloak of H1N1 sequestration.
Further, the proposed patent protection on biologic’s must be stripped from the US bill. And greatly shorten/restricted, or abolished completely. This is a grave danger to humanity and global security.
I think President Obama is doing the best he can at playing the disastrous deck of cards he inherited from the previous administration. And I think he is doing an excellent job. But the wolves and devils of the medical industrial complex! are trying to exploit, and take advantage of his good heart, and desperate desire to help suffering Americans. But we must be strong and insist that healthcare reform be done right for the American people. Or everyone loose’s.
This is all I can say in a message post. I’ll try to find a way to tell you more later.
God Bless You My Fellow Human Beings
jacksmith – Working Class
p.s. The so-called nominal H1N1 virus is designed in such a way as to make it more lethal to children and young adults. The medical community must be more vigilant of secondary bacterial infections in the young caused by H1N1. And remember, a viral infection is also a transfer of genetic code to you. Think about it, and be vigilant. 🙁
Looks like you need a better screen, boomer. The loonies are in……..