Single Payer Always The Plan

You have seen stories on Obamacare premiums going up 25%?

Nobody who read Obamacare before it passed thought the numbers would work. That was always the plan, designed to fail with the public clamoring for the government to fix it, and fix it they will, replacing it with a single payer plan.

You were lied to, and slapped in the face via your wallet.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D:IL), whose husband Robert Creamer recently made headlines turning up in the videos outlining voter fraud put forth by James O'Keefe and his group Project Veritas, proclaimed the ruse to take the country to a single payer plan years ago. Take a listen:

 

Accurately noted by Rush Limbaugh, the democrats "can tie every life decision you make to health care that they are paying for, then they can deny you certain things. They can tell you can't eat that, drink that, can't go there, can't travel there, can't have too many kids, can't do this. They have total control over who you are and how you live based on how much your health care is gonna cost them. There will be death panels. There will be rationing. There will be decisions made on who gets treatment and who doesn't, and it's gonna be based on age. It's gonna be how some bureaucrat values your life versus somebody else's, who's worth more in terms of getting treatment so they live longer, who does the country miss less if they die sooner."

If elected, Hillary will eliminate choice from your health care coverage while further eroding your freedom.

Obamacare Implodes -- As Designed by Rush Limbaugh

Health Care Mirage

Unfortunately, due to arrogant elected officials, who shoved down the throat of the American people a take over of one sixth of the American economy without one Republican vote, and the inability to accurately interpret the Constitution by Chief Justice John Roberts, we are likely stuck with The Affordable Health Care Act, or Obamacare.

The roll out of Obamacare is running into all sorts of issues, inclusive of much higher than anticipated costs, increased regulation and difficulties in implementation.  The architects of the Health Care Act, written before Obama got elected by The Tides Foundation, know exactly what the future holds with respect to the plan.  The majority of the politicians, who never read the bill, are useful idiots playing the political game.

And of course, there is the extreme propaganda of false, incorrect and deceitful information the American people were handed by the politicians who supported the effort. 

*Premiums will fall
*No Death Panels (Sarah Palin was correct as usual)
*You can keep your Doctor

Perhaps the most deliberate omission in the description presented the American people was that, although the ACA itself is not a single payer plan, it was a necessary stepping stone, or trojan horse, because the architects deemed jumping to a single payer plan would be met with anticipated public disapproval.  The people must be nudged that direction over time, with the elimination of choice, and freedom, along the way.  Make no mistake, a single payer plan is the ultimate objective, although the mainstream media did their best to conceal it.

However, many have publicly stated the intentions, including former Senator Barney Frank (D:MA)and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D:CA).  Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D:CA), not only admitted to the ACA being a precursor to a single payer plan, but gleefully spoke of her intention to destroy a private sector industry.  Imagine the arrogance.

Over at Verum Serum, Robert J. Samuelson has a great piece on the public plan mirage, although it fails to examine the extension beyond health care.  For example, as an investor in capital markets and real property, I found particularly interesting the portion of the health care bill that hits capital gains and real estate with an investment income tax of 3.8%. 

How does capital gains on investments or real estate relate to health care?  Well, obviously, it is not about health care.

As Ronald Reagan warned us back in 1961, a government method to impose socialism or statism on the people is through socialized medicine as a vehicle for increased taxation, regulation, surveillance and control. 



Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius really insulted the intelligence of the American people this week when she opined that the implementation of the law was much more difficult than previously thought.

“Probably no one fully anticipated when you have a law that phases in over time, how much confusion that creates for a lot of people. So that has been difficult,” Sebelius said. “When the law was signed and people immediately did not get affordable health insurance, they were surprised and a lot were disappointed but now understand that this was a gradual phase-in.”

Really? Who is she trying to kid? 

The planners recognize that most Americans do not follow closely enough to decipher the lies being told them on a consistent basis, not to mention changes to the language, and therefore are not privy to the inside baseball of the plan.  Since when are revenues tax increases?

Those of us who understand free markets and the importance of individual choice knew full well what a monstrosity of misery the law would be. We also understood the false premise the whole movement was based upon.  Charts like the one presented below would have been pure comedy if it were not sadly real and poised to wreak havoc on our liberties.

 

Unfortunately, the more the planners plan the more the plans fail. Governments don't tax to get the money they need but find needs for the money they get.  Every area of freedom will be invaded by the tentacles of bills of this nature, and with each victory the progressive elite planners achieve, the more freedom we the people lose.

Three Legs or Four Pillars

There are few politicians these days that totally understand the dire situation Uncle Sam finds himself in these days, but one who does is Representative Paul Ryan, (R:WI), who made an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box last week, and his commentary has been the talk of the blogosphere, including here on BAHL's Blog. Ryan is a real star on the Republican side, and his specialty is economics, which is critically important during these times.

With Ryan in as guest host, the crew welcomed Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D), a member of President Obama national commission on fiscal responsibility (stop laughing), to discuss the current economic conditions, which contrary to Obama's "Summer of Recovery Tour", are not pretty.

Not to bore the batcrap out of the audience, but we are really at a crossroads this November, and a stark contrast to Ryan's limited government and Schakowsky's Keynesian model of big government stimulus is made during this interview, which is a must see.



The stimulus spending has been a epic failure, as we predicted it would be. Unemployment is still hovering near 10% and will go higher in upcoming months. Rep. Schakowsky thinks government spending creates jobs, which Ryan accurately points out is created by small business, who remain afraid of excessive government regulatory encroachment, increased taxation and the uncertainty of future governmental action, which includes uncontrollable spending.

For example, under the control of the Democrats, the House has yet to put forth a budget. Can you imagine the biggest increase in governmental spending in our history being implemented without a budget!

Rep. Schakowsky, clearly struggling for friction in the interview, was contradictory in statements about decreasing the debt, labeling decreasing spending as one of the three legs of a stool to economic stability and reducing the debt. Schaloswky has supported all of Obama's expansive spending measures, which have exponentially increased the debt.

Schakowsky labeled the three legs of her stool to economic stability as decreased spending, raising revenue and growth. Well, do not sit on this stool because the policies of the Obama administration, with full support from Schakowsky, has increased spending, is losing tax revenue from business tax receipts and is barely growing, even with the astronomical levels of stimulus. In fact, the growth may be short lived as a double dip recession remains a strong possibility.

Ronald Reagan found four pillars to a strong economy; sound money, low taxes, limited regulation and free trade. Each of these pillars is currently being legislated against, so you make the call.

Ryan cleans Schakowsky's clock during this discussion, with CNBC's Becky Quick even getting in on the fun. Without question, Schakowsky should be among the very first voted out of office at the earliest opportunity.

Schalowsky, a progressive, it should be noted, was one of the strongest supporters of the health care bill. The goal of course was a single payer health care system, and she was quite giddy about how it would put insurance companies out of business, killing hundreds of thousands of private sector jobs.



In closing, did you hear Rep. Schakowsky mention how Rep. Ryan voted against more money to teachers. Funding for teachers, and in fact the entire budget for the public school system, is a train wreck, but not for the reasons you may think. You can place the blame on the National Educators Association. You would think they put kids first, but think again:



It is clear Rep. Schakowsky is borderline clueless, and I am not only one who recognizes this. With politicians like Rep. Jan Schakowsky in charge, the financial standing of our country, as well as your freedoms, is in substantial danger. Please be advised.