Obama Explains the "Rules of Reform"
by: Ian Welsh
http://www.openleft.com/diary/15033/obama-explains-the-rules-of-reform
Obama in his speech on Wednesday night:
"I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am
determined to be the last."
"...under my plan, individuals will be required to carry
basic health insurance"
"I have no interest in putting insurance companies out of business."
" we believe that less than 5 percent of Americans would sign
up" (for the public option)
"Nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have"
[or allows to you, if you now have
insurance through your employers]
A clearer statement of Obama's meaning:
"As Health Secretary Sebelius said,* we are determined to create a
health system in this country which
is designed so it can never become single payer. My mandate system,
forcing you to buy insurance from insurance companies with inadequate
subsidies,** will preclude that possibility, and save the American
consumer for the American insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
"Rule 1: The best way to make money is to have the government force
people to buy your product.
"Rule 2: Any major industry with a revenue stream is entitled to that
revenue stream forever, no
matter how bad the service they provide, or how much they overcharge.
"Rule 3: Any failure of the system will be paid for by forcing
ordinary people to pay to bail out the elites who failed. Making the
rich pay for their own mistakes is unacceptable."
* http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/sebelius-not-only-it-not-single-payer
**
http://www.ianwelsh.net/comparing-the-house-bills-cost-to-the-baucus-proposal/
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