And it isn't known yet what basic services the government plan will cover. Rationing systems such as those of Canada, Great Britain and Sweden deny many forms of treatment to elderly patients that private American insurance covers. Read this account from my friend Tim who has survived bladder cancer about the difference in treatment regimens here in the U.S. and abroad, differences based in cost-containment.
Then study this chart of Obamacare prepared by the GOP staff on the Joint Economic Committee. The RNC should make a t-shirt out of this and distribute for $5 during the August recess. This is your future if Obamacare passes.
The president's pitch for his radical makeover of American medicine is built on a big lie of "you get to keep what you have." Incredibly the MSM stands aside and lets him make this outrageous claim again and again, even though it has the effect of defrauding every single voter who hears it unchallenged. I asked Howard Kurtz about the comatose state of the MSM, and his defense of the Beltway press gaggle was necessarily tepid. It had to be. The press corps is along for the ride and refuses to ask even the most obvious questions about the president's whopper.
Which means voters will have to do the asking, at every "townhall" and district meeting with a Congressman or a senator. E-mail the various offices and ask if your coverage --the same coverage and the same doctors at the same rate-- is "guaranteed." Demand to know how such an obviously untrue promise can be made again and again by the president when the government plan will fill up with millions of Americans being pushed down a slide. Only if the public grasps the enormity of the changes aimed at their health care and their doctors will they in turn demand that their representatives and senators stop this rush off an Obama cliff.
The "Free Our Health Care Petition" will cross 900,000 signatures by July's end and quickly make the 1,000,000 goal we had hope to make by the time Congress left town. It is an exhibit in every meeting with a Congressman or senator ahead --a million people saying "no" to Obamacare who hadn't begun to come together even three weeks ago. Please join the effort and please find your congressman and senator while they are back in the district and tell them that you don't believe the president's obviously false "guarantees" and that you want Obamacare defeated and defeated quickly so real and focused reforms can be brought forward.