Via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:The guys at Verum Serum strike again with this new video of Democrats and their think-tank allies talking about……

That’s an interesting problem and question by the way, but I am not sure the solution to this is NOT covering them.

Late to the party, but…

Expanded government-subsidized healthcare will accelerate the crowding-out of private health insurance. As is the case with Medicare, we will not be able to collect enough in taxes to pay market prices for treatments. Therefore the answer will be to reduce payments to doctors and hospitals and ration care.

This of course will drive up prices towards those who have the funds to pay market prices, i.e. cash payers and health insurance companies. Because most employers pay a portion of health benefits to employees, they will most likely drop coverage, opting to pay their employee the difference and let them fend for themselves. People not already on the government dole will quickly see that the public option, while lower in quality, is ultimately cheaper.

This is of course what the intention was, all along. Once government gets involved in the private sector it does not tolerate competition. It can also afford to lowball private insurance because, well, they can just raise taxes without much fallout. Increased taxes will continue to drive people away from private insurance and into the waiting hands of the poorer quality, but affordable, public option.

Mycowardice, you seem to have this idea that government actually intends to use public health care to take care of its citizens. Don’t ever forget that any public program, no matter the “good intentions” its supporters try to vocalize, has only one purpose…to hook as many voters as possible so that they have no choice but to keep the enablers in power.

And of course, the endgame (as is the case with gun control, poor public education, and benefits) is to make voting irrelevant (or at least nothing more than a show, much like Iran) and to create a majority of dependent, uneducated, unarmed peasants.

So what is the solution? It’s very simple. Free markets. That means phasing out Medicare, Medical, and any government interference in the health care industry. True free markets, not the over-regulated, price-controlled hybrid that Medicare and the FDA have created. Free markets will allow capital to flow back into the markets, encouraging competition and lowering prices.

And yes, that means allowing the uninsured to remain so. Free competition will allow the facilitated entry of low-priced insurance into the market. For those in real dire straits, the freeing up of capital from the elimination of Medicare will allow charitable organizations to expand operations (and will be held accountable to its donors as opposed to an unaccountable government program).

Once their CONSTITUENTS get a look at the health care plan, they either ride the swelling wave of anger or lose their membership.

Don’t get old folks…..cause they’ll be no healthcare for ya.

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Kill the Old

Anyone with half a brain and an eye to what’s happened elsewhere around the world knows the endgame of universal coveragesocialized medicine: not just shitty, third-world standards of care and the end of drug development, well, forever but rationing — the denial of care to those the government bureaucracy decides would cost more to treat than they’re worth.

And this means, most of all, seniors — you know, the huge voting bloc whose already government-subsidized treatments get more and more expensive as the time they have left gets shorter and shorter.

Now it’s unsurprising to me that Kaus has spotted the Journolist zombies’ foundation-laying for this kill-the-boomers endgame. What did surprise me was finding it in the very first draft of ZeroCare:

Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.

And this is, of course, the preliminary lowballing.

What’s the AARP up to these days, I wonder?

Hey trolls – you think WE’RE being nasty in our assessments of your precious socialized system?

Just wait ’til the AARP gets on this.

Ever see a truly and honestly pissed off elderly person?

Why, when they get together at these think tank discussions can they say what they REALLY MEAN and then when they try to sell their plan to the American public they feel COMPELLED to lie about what their true intentions are?

Fine that the trolls here want to keep harping on the supposed ‘benefits’ or ’superiority’ of the single payer system – that wasn’t really the point of the thread, now was it?

Why can’t your leaders be HONEST about this?

President Barack Obama’s health care proposal is running into road blocks. Today he attempts to get past one of them, the costs of government healthcare, by “saving or creating” $313B in money to fund the overhaul. Obama on Saturday is……

Yeah, let Acorn and these left-wing organizations run healthcare, and healthcare will end up like the housing market.

NO OBAMACARE!