Posted on 08/28/2009 12:13:41 PM PDT by khnyny
Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but also at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don't need a PhD to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction.
But there is an exit strategy. And a politically clever one, if the Democrats are smart enough to seize it.
(1) Forget the public option. Whatever the merits, and they are few, it is political poison. It dies by the Liasson Logic, the unassailable observation by NPR's Mara Liasson that there are no liberal Democrats who will lose their seats if the public option is left out, while there are many moderate Democrats who could lose their seats if the public option is included.
(2) Jettison any reference to end-of-life counseling. People see (correctly) such Medicare-paid advice as subtle encouragement to voluntarily refuse treatment. People don't want government involvement in a process they consider the private province of patient, family and doctor. The Senate is already dropping it. The House must follow...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The only acceptable American solution is to vote NO, and keep voting NO, on everything the Kenyan communist usurpers propose, until the bastages are removed from office.
He needs to stop helping our enemies.
Huh?
Capitulate Charlie? What have you been smoking lately?
Go away!
Wow 1153 comments at the Post.
I wish our guys would shut up and just kill the bill.
Why give the other team any good ideas? Nuts!
There is absolutely no reason for the dems to pass any bill that doesn’t make the gov’t the sole arbiter of who gets what medical treatment.
This is truly the only reason for “healthcare reform”.
So now Kraut supports Government controlled healthcare and rationing? That is the endgame of the plan he laid out.
Krauthammer is right on the ball- and he is reporting NOT as a proponant, but as a wise observer.
Unfortunatley the liberals would do well to take his advice because he is absolutley right
So, armed with this knowlege we need to kill of THESE actions too.
Krauthammer would not fair well under the
Quality Adjusted Life Year
calculation.
I read it and loved it—for the obvious sarcasm in which it meant to be taken. Only a Democrap would take it seriously.
The only exit strategy is DON’T DO ANYTHING. Any bill that gets passed now will immediately be amended so that all these awful things go into it.
We don’t need a government health program. Period. End of sentence.
“Krauthammer is right on the ball- and he is reporting NOT as a proponant, but as a wise observer.”
That’s the way I read this also. Seems like he’s staying one step ahead of the dems here, exposing the way they will try to save face and give BO his bill, but then lays out clearly where it will lead if they follow this route.
However, they will not appear immediately. And when they do, the only solution will be rationing. That's when the liberals will give the FCCCER regulatory power and give you end-of-life counseling. march you in front of Sarah Palin's "Death Panels".
But by then, resistance will be feeble. Why? Because at that point the only remaining option will be to give up the benefits we will have become accustomed to. Once granted, guaranteed universal health care is not relinquished. Look at Canada. Look at Britain. They got hooked; now they ration. So will we.
Very funny Charles. I thought it needed a little editing however.
Krauthammer has been inside the Beltway too long. I guess we conservatives must lay down as health insurance becomes compulsory. And exactly how do the insurance companies keep down their premiums and who decides what is "acceptable" insurance under any such mandate? And what are the penalties if you don't have it and how are they enforced?
Hopefully, the moonbats won’t listen.
this seems more a smaller ratchet leftward.
rather than a push hard to stop it.
Excellent article by Krauthammer. He is very intelligent.
I am always confused by Krauthammer. Sometimes he sounds smart and sane (and, of course, worried about his own situation), and sometimes he is so eager to curry favor with the left that I wonder if the same person is writing his articles.
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