ABC’s Informercial For Obama’s Health Care Policies Is Starting Now
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Right now this is the headline at ABC:
ABC is claiming to be interested in both sides of this debate, and yet not only does Obama get to pitch his policy on ABC tonight with no rebuttal from any of his critics, and not even any ads critical of his policies allowed to air while he’s on, but ABC’s reporting on this programming explicitly reinforces Obama’s talking points on the issue.
Obama is desperate for Americans to believe that his “government option” for health care will simply bring more competition to the health care industry which, in turn, will raise the quality of care while bringing down options. He’s right about the impact competition would have on the health care industry, but he’s wrong that the government can provide that competition.
Because the government doesn’t compete. And it’s obvious to any unbiased observer that the intent here for Obama and his fellow liberals is to set up a “government option” health care plan, and then use the coercive power of government to herd as many Americans as possible onto that plan (killing off private sector competition as they go) until we reach a tipping point at which we will end up with a single-payer health care plan.
Obama and his fellow liberals know that single-payer health care isn’t what Americans want (if it was that’s what Obama would be selling tonight), so they’re trying a more oblique approach to reaching that goal.
There is no right to health care. There is only a right to the opportunity to provide for your own health care. And Obama’s “government option” wouldn’t provide more choice in the health care market. It’d provide less choice.
