[ConjunctionJunction]

“... and her allies, including Reps. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois”

Rep. Jan Schakowsky pushes single payer healthcare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfOWnZ82Pm4

[VeniVidiVici]

A government plan could save money with lower administrative costs and by paying hospitals and doctors less than commercial insurance plans, analysts have said; that could result in lower premiums and lower government subsidies for Americans who choose that plan over plans offered by commercial insurers.

Marxists on parade. LOWER ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS? What are they smoking??!! And then to claim price controls will result in lower premiums? Intellectually challenged for sure.

[rlmorel]

"...At a time when both political parties are worrying about the federal deficit..."

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[Brilliant]

Fortunately everyone knows what liars these people are by now.

[freespirited]

DOA.

[tips up]

Of course it will save money. Deny care repeatedly and money will be saved.

Never mind that people will be sick and die more often.

[Munz]

almost there now with the current bill which MUST be repealed

[Hoodat]

What do you mean by ‘bring back’ the public option? That has been their goal from Day One.

[Boucheau]

Patience, comrades, America is breaking. Just give it time.

If 0bamaCare isn’t repealed they will have what they want in a relatively short period of time.

DMV-style medical care.

Not to mention the end of life as we know it in the US. This will kill freedom, guaranteed.

Because Americans won’t fight back, the best we can hope for is that the American left loves their freedom a little more than they hate the right.

[Tzimisce]

All of us at Free Republic knew this was coming.

[ArmstedFragg]

They’ve already passed a plan that will result in the end of private health insurance once it plays out, but apparently they can’t wait.

[TruthConquers]

Dems ONLY know how to SPEND money.

They have NEVER saved money.

Liars.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice try, but it’s yet another attempt to put lipstick on a pig’s butthole.

[FreeKeys]

"There is all this concern about the deficit," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., a leading champion of the proposal. "Well, guess what, this would reduce the deficit because it saves so much money."

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... and find a LOT MORE posters HERE.

and you've GOT to see this history of health care costs here.

"We know that anything government does private enterprise can do for half the cost." -- Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Dr. Milton Friedman to Charlie Rose 12-26-2005 

"Whenever the government runs things it always costs twice as much as should be." -- Gerald Pearse

"Government purchases of military hardware, highways, energy projects, space equipment, and other items often cost 50% or 100%, or more (see here and here), above what politicians originally promise." -- Chris Edwards

"When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.  In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer." -- Arnold Kling

"The idea of putting government in charge of something to 'save money' is INSANE." -- Ben Stein

"Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children." -- Neal Boortz

"It takes more weeks to get an answer from the Small Business Administration to an emergency loan application than [the number of] seconds it takes to get money from an ATM [while you're visiting] a foreign country." -- Newt Gingrich

"Never trust the government to do a job, if you have a private business alternative." -- D.J. Drummond

"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison

"I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedman's insight is that a market limits the power that others have over us; conversely, limiting the power that others have over us allows us to have markets. Friedman argued that no matter how wise the officials of government may be, market competition does a better job of protecting us from idiots." -- Arnold Kling

"Our bureaucrats are even more incompetent than the ones in Venezuela." -- Jim Rogers, 12-11-2002

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell

"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." -- Ronald Reagan

"Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.  Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own." -- Milton Friedman

"Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it can't get out of its own way?" -- Bob Schieffer

"I'm no longer a consumer advocate if I'm reporting on government?  Doesn't government screw consumers, too?  You bet." -- John Stossel

-- lots more where those came from