Proof Positive the Public Option Will Lead to Single Payer

President Obama has said repeatedly that those who claim that healthcare reform will ultimately lead to a government take-over of the health system are not telling the truth. So are these Democrat supporters of the President's plan not telling the truth?

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[morgenr]

Hey librophile, why don't you tone it down a bit. You have the right to express your views but you lose all credibility when you just echo liberal talking points IN ALL CAPS!!!!!

There are no insurance companies behind this video...or any of the videos I've posted. I'm just a normal citizen who is opposed to the idea of the government controlling our health care system. And there is no question that the public option was intended as a backdoor to a single payer system.

[friscoamm]

Let me make this very clear to ANY politician who votes in favor of this health care bill: any legislation that would put Americans in jail for failure to purchase any good or service is guilty of tyranny and it is an act of war against the American people.

I personally consider anyone - politician or civilian - who favors this type of legislation to be my enemy and an enemy of the U.S. and a violator of the Constitution.

I can not make it any clearer than that.

Choose your side.

[FontanaPete1]

The democratic party was hijacked decades ago by the left. They want nothing short of a European-style socialist nanny state. Damn their rotten statist hides.

F**k the public option. Double f**k single payer.

[rpare666]

I'm in

[whoo689]

It's called COMPROMISE. That's the name of the game in politics! If you don't know that, you're either a little kid or a moron. LOTS of times in politics people propose or settle for more moderate measures when they really want more radical stuff to be implemented. It DOES NOT necessarily mean that the moderate proposals will automatically turn into the radical stuff. You've gotta be an IDIOT to assume that!

This video is utterly pointless and just a stupid attack.

[whoo689]

You could make a video like this about ANYTHING that's proposed at first by Congressmen or presidents. I could easily show a video of Bush proposing in 2001 that we invade Afghanistan and then fast-forward to people talking about how Iraq might be the next target and say, "AHA! This is really just a pretext for a bogus invasion of Iraq. It's not about security." What's the point of this stupid video? Ooh, some of the people who favor a public option want single payer. big whoop

[whoo689]

If states like Sweden can easily afford "socialism" on a massive scale, why can't we?? Scandinavian states are consistently ranked very high on SO MANY MEASURES of prosperity, economic growth and development! They have plenty of economic freedom and business growth (as well as high incomes for the average person), yet they STILL have strong social welfare. If they can do it, we should easily be able to. Our economy's not gonna die or anything. for christ sake

[whoo689]

In some nations the waiting times and inefficiencies are much shorter than in others, but it's not like our system isn't riddled with problems as well. Overall, I think every major HC system has a fair share of flaws and good points. No one system is TRULY "much better" than the other in the long-term. The trade-offs aren't nearly as large as Republicans make it out to be. I think we could easily afford UHC. $14 Trillion econ, why not?

[whoo689]

Overall, I really don't think a single-payer or other kind of universal coverage system, such as the types in Switzerland and Germany, would REALLY be much worse than what we have now. I've looked at the data and evidence, and a lot of the crap right-wingers peddle about OTHER HC systems being apocalyptic are just phony talking points. The fact is, the vast majority of people DO get coverage when they need it even in single-payer states! Yes, unfortunately, there are waiting times, although

[whoo689]

@friscoamm ...Where does it say anywhere in the bill "people who don't get insurance will be jailed"???? That's just a dumb right-wing talking point! And you know it! The gov't is not gonna JAIL people just for not buying insurance. come on, dude. Prisons are crowded enough as it is, and you REALLY think they're gonna make it worse by jailing people for insurance?

[GuitarHall]

Sigh, too bad we're doomed to 3rd-world status because our faceless aristocratic overlords are destroying the middle class (by having Fox and others turn the middle class against itself).

Raise your hand if you've received public health care in a foreign country and found it superior to our for-profit (read: vampiric) mess.

If you really believe government is the root of all the ills of our country, move to Saudi Arabia or Belarus where there is no democracy.

[Untadaike]

Hahahahahahaha. This video makes me laugh. And the title looks like something Porthos would say from The Three Musketeers. Way to go. Just another pissed off conservative.

[tdrobar]

so whats the bigdeal?