Single-Payer On The Way

The major problem with the ObamaCare bill isn't any single provision that somebody happens not to like. Instead, the major problem is that Democrats are planning to expand the existing bill over time until we have a single-payer system in the United States. That means no more private insurance or medical care... all that will be provided by the government. This is something that many people have suspected would happen, but we were dismissed as crazies for even SUSPECTING that a single-payer system was the ultimate goal.

Now we find out that... well, we were right. Democrats and liberals are now admitting that this bill is just the first step and that they want to increase government control of health care even further.
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/21/democrats-break-ground

"This is not the end of health care reform," Sen. Tom Harkin declared on the Senate floor after midnight this morning. "This is the beginning of health care reform."

Harkin was attempting to convince restive liberals that even a scaled back health care bill that did not include their beloved public option was still worth passing. But his comments, along with those made by other Senate Democrats in the week leading up to this morning's 1 a.m. vote to advance the Senate health care bill, confirmed what critics have been saying throughout the health care debate.

The point isn't that this one piece of legislation, on its own, will impose a Canadian-style, government-run health care system on the United States immediately. The point is that Democrats are putting infrastructure in place that will allow them to implement a government-run system over time.

Still don't believe us? Listen to liberals talking... in their own words.

"What we need to do is lay a strong foundation," Sen. Ron Wyden said in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow last week. "A foundation that we can build on in the years ahead. We are not going to get everything we want in round one, but we are going to get a foundation that we are going to build on in the years ahead."

Sen. Jay Rockefeller told the New Republic "that liberal advocates could try again another year to push for the reforms that didn't make it into the current bill." He said, "You know we're going to be back next year, and the year after that, and the year after that."

And in comments on the Senate floor on Friday, Sen. John Kerry argued that Democrats shouldn’t even wait that long. Kerry recalled how Sen. Ted Kennedy regretted he never accepted a deal President Richard Nixon offered that would have forced employers to insure everybody, with some help from government.

"The lesson Teddy learned is this," Kerry explained. "When it comes to historic breakthroughs in America, especially in social policies, you make the best deal that you can, and immediately, you start pushing for ways to improve the deal."

Kerry said Kennedy applied that lesson after successfully fighting for a minimum wage increase in 1996, only to turn around and immediately call for another increase while at a victory rally.

"He was in the victory moment, and he turned to Congresman George Miller, and he said, 'I'm introducing a bill to raise the minimum wage,'" Kerry recounted. "And George Miller said, 'What do you mean? You haven't even let the dust settle?' And (Kennedy) said, 'We've gotta move on this.'"

The same logic, Kerry said, should apply to passing health care legislation. And as evidence, he noted that Medicare and Medicaid have greatly expanded over time.

They WANT this single-payer system, and will work unceasingly to get it.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30871.html

Once a bill is enacted, we must demand more steps to provide immediate relief to Americans before the exchanges are operational nearly a half-decade from now. And we must fight to revive the public option to deliver on reform’s promise of cost control and accountability for insurers.

We have a once-in-a-generation moment to pass reform, and we must seize it. But what we pass must be understood as only a step — an important but ultimately incomplete step — toward the goals that the inspiring campaign for the public option embodied.

And make no mistake: If Republicans agree to future "compromises," they will be co-conspiritors in the socialization of American medicine. The ONLY way to deal with this is to push strongly for a total repeal of this atrocious law as soon as it can be accomplished.

Single-payer is coming... and we did it to ourselves by electing the intellectual defectives who actually think it's moral to force this kind of system on an unwilling populace.