Emperor Obama’s Health Bill Has No Clothes – by Dick Morris | FrontPage Magazine

Emperor Obama’s Health Bill Has No Clothes – by Dick Morris | FrontPage Magazine: "Due to pressure from enraged Americans, the most pernicious features of Obama’s health care legislation have, for now at least, been stripped from his bill. This is no time for complacency, however, since the liberals are trying to push back and get the provisions back in.

As the bill now stands, it doesn’t have any teeth.

— Without the public option, the government does not have the financial clout to enforce the decisions of the new secretary of health about the protocols of care to be followed. The left had hoped that the federal public option insurance company would put the private firms out of business and leave a single, governmental payer in place.

This single payer could slice reimbursements to providers at will and bring them into line offering low cost, long waiting lists and rationed medical care. But with no expansion of Medicare to those over 55 and no federal public option, the secretary of health won’t have the power to force bad medical care down the throats of the American people."