Train Wreck in the Making: Obama’s Government-Run Health Care System

It’s official: If the massive government takeover of health care goes through, Medicare spending will shrink. The Democrats are busy building a 60-vote consensus for government-run health care and on Thursday (Dec. 3), the Senate voted to pass its projected $400 billion-dollar cut to Medicare.

Yep. Sarah Palin was right. They’re planning “Death Panels” for senior citizens and those who plan to benefit from Medicare in the future. Mark Levin calls the bill a “runaway train” and challenged Republicans to stop making amendments to the bill, especially when they don’t like “the guts” of it (Levin, WELI 960, 12/04/09). If Democrats get their way, many of us will be left waiting at the station. Even worse, we may not even get a ticket for this shoddy train ride. Instead, we will be at the mercy of bureaucrats who will decide our care and treatments.

These are the same bureaucrats who have exempted themselves from the bill they’re proposing for us; the same group that plunged unemployment to double digits and tripled the national deficit in less than a year. They’re part of the administration that sides with climate criminals, have little to no private sector job experience and use vulgar nicknames for those who protest their power grabs and spending.

Who wants the single-payer plan or any other plan we can sum up as Obamacare? No one but Obama & Co. and a few other deluded Liberals. According to the latest Rasmussen poll on the subject, 62% of Americans oppose the single-pay system “where the federal government provides coverage for everyone” (December 3, 2009, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/november_2009/62_oppose_single_payer_health_care_system).

If single pay is so great, why are Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid fighting tooth and nail to ramrod the plan through Congress as quickly as possible? Wouldn’t they want to get a reform as monumental as health care right before implementing a single part of it? Of course not. They care only about staying in power and they’re even willing to sacrifice some of their own to get the plan through.