Posted on 07/29/2009 7:27:53 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Cornered by health care advocacy group Single Payer Action, Barney Frank blurted(or, more correctly, slobbered) out the real motivation behind Obamacare's "Public Option".
Interviewer: Don’t you think we should scratch everything and start anew with single payer? Why not?
Frank: No…because we don’t have the votes for it. I wish we did. I think if we get a good public option it could lead to single payer, and that’s the best way to reach single payer. Saying you’ll do nothing until you get single payer is a sure way never to get it.
Interviewer:Right now, it’s not a strong public option, is it?
Frank: Well, we don’t know what the plan is. I’m for a strong public option. I think your strategy is suicidal for trying to get single payer. I think the best way we’re going to get single payer –the only way – is to have a public option demonstrate its strength and power.
So here's Barney Frank, the brains behind Fannie Mae and the financial meltdown, flat out admitting that the way to single-payer is to fool voters with "a public option". And he flatly states that the public option will overwhelm and eradicate private insurance plans.
Now Barack Obama's been saying for weeks that the public option won't hurt private insurers,which everyone knows is a bald-faced lie.
Mr. Obama dismissed the idea of a government takeover of health care, saying a public insurance system would complement, not replace, private companies.
“It will keep government out of health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your(private) insurance if you’re happy with it,” he said.
You're not going to get to keep your private insurance -- and everyone knows it. And Barney Frank just confirmed it, calling Barack Obama a liar.
(Excerpt) Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com ...
[I think if we get a good public option it could lead to single payer, and that’s the best way to reach single payer.]
That’s the plan!!
Anyone know how to get this to Rush, Beck, Hannity, and O’Reilly?
100% liar.
Liberals who refuse to back single payer/public option are sell-outs to their wacko base.
Blue dogs who support it are sell outs to their base.
Therefore, there is no majority to support any bill.
America wins.
Barney Frank, who is a HUGE Liar, calling Obama, a liar. Birds of a feather really do flock together
Calling obama a liar is too kind ... and a slight to all other liars everywhere.
Bawny calls anyone who doesn’t stick their wicket in the out door a liar.
And Bawny’s one of the biggest liars out there.
Ironic, isn’t it?
Obama said today at the Bristol Town Hall meeting at Kroger’s that he was against the single payer option. It was televised locally.
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