Did You Think We Had Won?

Did you get all excited last weekend when the Obama administration announced that the public option was not necessary? Did you think it was over? How disappointing was it when they caved mid-week to the pressure from the Congress? Then they flipped again by mid-week. Do they know what they support? Is everyone at the White House on the same page? They appear to be running scared from the polls and backtracking all over the place. Changing their mind, twice, on health care, shutting down their "report on your neighbor" e-mail program, and let's don't forget about Cash for Clunkers. What a gem that has turned out to be.

Sean Hannity has been repeatedly asking a very good question this week: Why is there this faith out there that the government will be able to effectively run a health care plan? They have an abysmal track record! No matter where you look in the government the programs are a nightmare. Social Security is almost broke (actually it is broke, Congress has siphoned off all of the money to pay their bills. All that is left is a big IOU.), Medicare is full of corruption, waste and inefficiencies, Cash for Clunkers was a huge debacle, etc, etc, etc. How about the post office? The President actually used that as an example of how hideous government run options were when compared to the private sector. He was trying to make the point that we should not fear competition from the government in health insurance. What?!?!?

If all they were going to do was create a government program that would give you short term access to health coverage when you were unemployed or unable to get coverage for whatever reason, that would be one thing. But, that is not what they are doing. They are trying to completely change a system to where the private insurance companies would not be able to compete; there would be no way for the to make money.

At least Madame Speaker is being honest. She is quoted in an article from Bloomberg saying that “There’s no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option,”. She is not even going to consider other options.

Don't think this is over. The liberal Democrats are going to continue to fight this battle. If they do not win it now, they will fight another day. This is not new. It has been going on since after WWII. Listen to a speech Reagan did in the early 60's talking about the need to defeat socialized medicine.