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July 9, 2009

(Video) Paul Krugman admits political strategy underlying ObamaCare is to nationalize healthcare

Topics: Political News and commentaries

The truth about the Democrats' "public plan" is beginning to emerge, as Paul Krugman, economic adviser to the President, and eminent columnist for the New York Times, for filling us in on what's really going on:

"...the only reason not to do [single-payer] is that politically it's hard to do in one step...You'd have to convince people to completely give up the insurance they have, whereas something that let's people keep the insurance they have but then offers the option of a public plan, that may evolve into single-payer, but you can do it politically..."

As Will Wilkinson points out at The Week (HT - Morgan)
Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker, one of the leading proponents of public option-style plans, admited that the public option is a Trojan horse for a single-payer plan - by explaining the general strategy this way:

"Someone once said to me that this is a Trojan horse for a single-payer. Well, it's not a Trojan horse, right? It's just right there! I'm telling you. We're gonna get there. Over time, slowly. ... We'll do it in a way that we're not going to frighten people into thinking they're going to lose their private insurance. We're going to give them a choice between public and private insurance, we're going to let them keep their private employer-based insurance if their employer continues to provide it."

And as Wilkinson notes, the idea is that, over time, slowly, employers won't continue to provide it. Americans need to look past the Democrats' deceit and wake up to the fact that President Obama's true goal is for a Canadian-style, single-payer health-care system that would severly attack our democratic freedom of choice, result in rationing of healthcare, reduce our current standards of care and treatment, increase taxes, and drastically increase our national debt.

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Posted by Richard at July 9, 2009 7:03 AM

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