Posted on 06/02/2014 7:00:18 AM PDT by wagglebee
The deadly rationing scandal at several Veterans Administration hospitals has many politicians running for cover, suddenly suggesting we offer veterans more private-pay options to the single-payer plan of the Veterans Health Care system.
But not Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama. They’d prefer the entire nation be forced into a single-payer system where the government replaces private insurance, a system that has inevitably led to rationing where it’s been tried.
On Monday, Pelosi was interviewed by Time magazine’s Ezra Klein about changes or improvements she’d like to see to Obamacare.
Nancy Pelosi: “I have some of my own suggestions that I couldn’t get through in the first round . . .”
Ezra Klein: “How would you like to see it improved?”
Pelosi: “Of course I wanted it single payer and I wanted a public option.”
As if that would somehow make it better than the disaster we’ve already seen in Obamacare? How tone-deaf could one be to suggest a preference for a single-payer system now, when the nation’s clearest example of a single-payer model is seeing veterans die by the dozens for lack of care – in other words, by rationing?
But Pelosi isn’t the only supporter. Long before he ran for president, when perhaps he thought his words wouldn’t matter to a wider audience, Barack Obama made it clear the only thing holding us back from a single-payer system is that the public wasn’t ready for it, yet.
“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.” Obama said in 2003. “A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we’ve got to take back the White House, we’ve got to take back the Senate, and we’ve got to take back the House.”
So for Obama, it appears the only impediment, at least theoretically, is that his party doesn’t have control of the U.S. House. Well, elections do have consequences. Especially for those who might lose their health care – or their lives – because of them.
For Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the prospect of going single payer even seems to bring out a rarely seen sense of enthusiasm. In an August 13, 2013 interview with PBS, Reid said “What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever.”
When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, Reid said: “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”
That’s the definition of single-payer. No insurance companies, the government runs the health care system. Just like in the VA system.
And just like in that system, patients would die, needlessly and without recourse, because the government would be the final arbiter of whether you get treatment or not.
National Right to Life is working to repeal Obamacare, and is supporting legislation introduced by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), S. 2191, to remove all provisions in Obamacare that enable the government to ration health care.
These actions, not expanding the deadly grasp of government to include the potential rationing of every single American through a single-payer system, could save an untold number of lives. I ask for your support.
LifeNews Note: Carol Tobias is the president of the National Right to Life Committee. This article originally appeared at NRL News Today.
And just like in that system, patients would die, needlessly and without recourse, because the government would be the final arbiter of whether you get treatment or not.
The goal of the left has ALWAYS been to have death panels.
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Leftists/Democrats would be the final arbiter of whether you get treatment. And it will be based on your propensity to support democrats or not. Conservatives don't and wouldn't use government this way.
What are the lives of a few million people when the goal is a socialist utopia?
That’s it. I have been helping a friend dealing with ‘issues’ and scheduling for a biopsy in the recent weeks. Scheduling was like pulling teeth and when finally accomplished cancer was advanced. So, when VA issue boiled up it made me wonder about what is going on in the hospitals. I am afraid that is what we are bound for.
Bernie Sanders has been on MSNBC quite regularly and has been saying that the VA care is really good, and the Vets love it, its just that they have waiting lines because not enough resources(ie $$$$), because of Republicans in congress.
Same would be claimed for a single payer system, just tax more.
The development of a Fascist State like Hitler had in 1930’s Germany, and what Obama almost has now in the nearly former USA, depends upon opposition leaders who refuse to lead the opposition, but continue to stay in power by support of their morally weak supporters.
The last attempt to oppose Obama failed when Boehner, Cantor, McConnell and McCain caved in to the stonewalling refusal to negotiate by Reid and Obama in late 2013 and early 2014.
Until effective voter pressure can be brought to bear on the Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate to replace the Republican Leadership in the House and Senate, Obama will continue to “Fundamentally transform the United States of America” into the most powerful Fascist Empire that the World has ever known.
Will these opposition Congressmen and women act before the November 2014 Election, or will they continue to wait to lose again, as usual, to the Left Wing, low information Voter in November, 2014?
BTW, money and reason are wasted on multimillionaire career politicians as they cannot be bought or convinced - - - they are the hardened professional criminal politicians that we have, for decades, elected and tolerated, gratefully for the “free” stuff that they have bought our votes with.
Obama is just doing as he was raised up to do, and will never change.
Our opposition Republican Leaders are doing everything that they can to make sure Obama is successful, and they will never change.
The change must come from opposition House Members and Senators in “both” parties, before low-information voters have made up their minds about whether or not to continue the status quo.
The Summer of 2014 is the last chance for We, the People to force our House and Senate Members to change their leadership before Labor Day, 2014, when early voting begins?
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