Democrat Health Plan Means a visit to the DMV? It’s in the Bill

Flopping Aces ^ | 10-14-09 | Mike's America

[Starman417]

And you thought we were joking when we said putting the government in charge of health care would be like visiting the DMV?

You Will Get Health Insurance at DMV—Literally (It’s in the Bill)
By Terence P. Jeffrey
CNS.com
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The most revelatory passage in the so-called “plain English” version of the health care bill that the Senate Finance Committee approved on Tuesday (without ever drafting the actual legislative language) says that in the future Americans will be offered the convenience of getting their health insurance at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

This is no joke. If this bill becomes law, it will be the duty of the U.S. secretary of health and human services or the state governments overseeing federally mandated health-insurance exchanges to ensure that you can get your health insurance at the DMV. ... Page 19 of the committee’s “plain English” text says: “The Secretary and/or states would do the following: ... Enable customers to enroll in health care plans in local hospitals, schools, Departments of Motor Vehicles, local Social Security offices, and other offices designated by the state.”

This is the bill’s most revelatory passage because it sublimely symbolizes the bill’s true aim: a government takeover of the health care system. You do not get food at the DMV. You do not even get auto insurance at the DMV. But under what The Associated Press inaptly calls the Finance Committee’s “middle-of-the-road health care plan,” you will get health insurance at the DMV.

What will the DMV and health care have in common if this bill is enacted? Government will control both.

And if you don't think the current plan is the road to a socialist takeover of health care consider this:

[LearnsFromMistakes]

DMV - isn’t that a state-level thing? At the fed level, it would be the Department of Transportation. Interesting.

[Zathras]

Motor Voter II?
Jedi sense says a Clinton is involved.

[Secret Agent Man]

The states are responsible for certain federal mandates, and the states’ DMVs falls under this.

It’s no different than the states administering the implementation of any other federal mandate. Look at public schools and all the federal mandates they enforce and/or implement. They are federally controlled, they are locally controlled, but implement state and federal rules all the time.