The Democrats' Fallback Plan For When Obamacare Inevitably Fails
Congressional Democrats unmistakably anticipate the failure of ObamaCare, given they had already asked the CBO to price a formal public option for 2014. The proposal’s co-sponsor Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), now reelected to a sixth term, said “By reintroducing it, we make sure that people don’t forget this is a viable option…. as the health bill is implemented, more and more people are going to come to the realization that cost containment and competition aren’t as robust as they should be, because of the absence of the public option”. Later, John Conyers (D-Mich.) in 2011 re-introduced his nationalized single payer system called “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act” in his H.R. 676 bill to the House of Representatives, following President Obama’s State of the Union in which the president said that the ACA was open to change “if you have ideas about how to improve this law.” Conyers was quite direct when he unabashedly stated the Democrats’ end-game along with their standard canard: “Improved and Expanded Medicare for All is inevitable in America– it is just a matter of when it will happen. Single-payer health care systems have successfully contained health care costs and provided high quality health care in countries in Europe, Taiwan, Japan, and Canada.” And let’s not overlook proposed legislation aiming for total take-over of health care by Democrat-dominated state governments, such as in Vermont and Delaware.
Second, or perhaps in advance of single payer legislation, watch for the federal government to restrict doctors from practicing, or possibly even criminalize them, unless they accept all patients with insurance paying government-defined rates for medical tests and treatments.