On Healthcare Reform, Democrats Take the Fifth

The Illinois Review ^ | January 3, 2010 | John F. Di Leo

[jfd1776]

Taking the Fifth.

What an apt metaphor for today's healthcare debate. As respect for the truth and law has plummeted in the governing class, so too has respect for the general boundaries of government. In the nineteenth century, the idea that the U.S. government might ever even consider nationalizing a fifth of the economy would have been unthinkable… but in 2009, both houses of Congress voted to do so, with all the dishonesty that a politician's use of the Fifth Amendment traditionally implies. In their so called "reform" of a fifth of our economy, the Democrats are spinning every yarn to avoid admitting the truth: that they’re committing the greatest crime ever perpetrated by our government against its citizens.

Speaker Pelosi (Socialist, CA) and Majority Leader Reid (Persona Non Grata, NV) don't confess to their participation in a massive crime against America, and against that fifth of the economy in particular. They don't face the patients, medical providers, and support groups with honesty. They don't even acknowledge that it's a takeover; they say that their mandates, price controls, and forced bankruptcies are mere "reform," not nationalization.

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[pallis]

If anyone sees any healthcare being reformed, please point it out. All I see is mandatory health insurance. It makes insurance companies a good investment for the time being, but watch out when they are socialized, and that won’t be long. When Democrats see the $billions they’ve brought the insurance industry, they will move to get their share, and then the whole stash. All the sentimental moralizing about helping the helpless will get buried beneath mountains of booty, bureaucracy, corruption and theft. Big insurance and big pharmaceuticals will get the life squeezed out of them, and Americans will long for the good ol’ days of the greatest healthcare system on earth. But we will never see them again.

[Stultis]

Or, like Max Baucus, take a fifth.