Hewitt on the “government option”, socialized healthcare being pushed at us
Hugh Hewitt discusses the coming effects should the so-called “government option” healthcare “reform” come to pass:
But if the mirage of a government-backed plan suddenly appears (complete with a vast new bureaucracy to enforce the rules and calculate the discounts for those at or near the poverty line) embattled employers will see the opportunity to escape en masse from their expensive obligations to their workforce. The big insurance companies may survive a while, but competing against the government dooms most of them to an obviously uncompetitive position vis-a-vis any federal plan.
An editorial in the Wall Street Journal discusses how it will affect your doctors. The national media is carefully avoiding reporting the details because they, and their Democratic left partners in Washington, know full well what happened the last time they tried this. You should make sure you know what they’re carefully not saying.
