TYT: Michael Steele Warns About Obama's 'Health Police'!

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 04:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLFiCxLaDOQ   Posted on YouTube: June 20, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 22, 2009 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 970

 
Summary: Cenk plays and breaks down an audio clip where RNC head Michael Steele fear mongers and makes up crazy lies about Obama's Health Care plan, including the Health Police.

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[pleah]

1. K&R And, no, they do not have "reasoning" they only have the fear card. n/t

[ejbr]

2. k & r n/t

[clear eye]

3. He's talking about the CER which is no myth, and promises new Draconian cuts in coverage for those

in the wrong part of the new 2-tiered health system. Cenk needs to read the details coming out about Obama's plan. Republicans are poised to blame the glaring inequalities and deficiencies of the upcoming "public option" on gov't intervention in the healthcare system, thus eroding support for single payer in the future.

Peter Orzag of the Administration has been consulting w/ the insurance industry, and excluding the knowledgeable public health experts whose numbers tell them that moving toward single payer is the only economic, effective way to cover us. Here are some of the highlights of what's been floated:

The Administration plan on the table will include Draconian cuts to covered treatments in the name of cost-cutting imposed by a "CER", comparative effectiveness research group. These so far sound even worse than most private insurance plan exclusions. The President has said that he wants to fold the public portion of Medicare into Medicaid, and expand it to the near-poor who don't have, and can't afford private health insurance. This raises the specter of means-testing for the public portion of Medicare (destruction of the entitlement), and promises the creation of two drastically disparate health systems--A good one with excellent coverage for those who can pay very high premiums or have "executive" coverage at work, and a charity bare-bones one for the rest of us that lets us die when necessary treatment is no longer "cost-effective". At any rate, nobody who can afford better will want to buy into this plan. The only healthy people who will be there will be those who financially have no choice and need to be largely subsidized.

This will serve only to remove the pressure for the private insurers to offer affordable plans to employers, since uncovered employees can always go into the fully-subsidized wretched "public option", or purchase private insurance with the help of some tax subsidies if they are upper-middle class. Givebacks on insurance coverage will be the norm for union contracts w/o the safety net of decent coverage for all that single payer would provide. This "public option" also removes the blame for the unfairness and deficiencies of the system from private insurers and puts it on government and its dreadful public option, thus killing support for single payer.

This is the sort of public option the insurance industry wants, and this is what the Obama Administration is giving us. Its costs may be the final blow on our economy, and will certainly bring on further transfer of wealth from most of us to the ultra-wealthy via a VAT.

[OhioChick]

4. K&R n/t

[Seldona]

5. Health Police?

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