The New (Old) Government Option; the Old (New) Shell Game
The so-called “public option” is now out; it finally became clear even to Senate Majority Leader Harry “Pinky” Reid (D-Caesar’s Palace, 75%) that there was no way in Hades that the public option could get the 60 votes needed to proceed on the Senate version of ObamaCare.
So he has swapped in a ringer: In [...]
Back in the USPS
At his dog-and-pony show on health care — excuse me, health insurance — reform in Portsmouth yesterday, President Obama denied that adding a government plan to “compete” with private insurance plans would drive insurers out of business, creating a single payer system by indirection. Obama argued that private insurers should have no problem “competing” [...]
Does Linda Douglass know about this? part 2
Barack Obama’s denial that he has advocated a “single payer,” Canadian style health care system may not have been the most comic moment of his Portsmouth dog-and-pony show. He also disputed the notion that adding a government plan to “compete” with private insurance plans would drive insurers out of business, indirectly creating a single [...]
