John Boehner on Healthcare Reform: The Public Option will be the Only Option in Five Years
The president likes to claim that the “public option” health insurance program is just on option. He claims that if you like the health insurance that you have you will be able to keep it, but that may not be true according to House minority leader John Boehner.
We already know that the government run healthcare option will put the private insurance companies out of business eventually leaving only the government option, the debate is over on that issue, it is settled science to borrow a term from Al Gore, but let us just pretend for a minute that private plans will not be run out of business by the government run option.
After five years all private insurance companies (which we are still pretending will be in business) will be purposely eliminated by the government themselves. Here is what John Boehner had to say on this issue:
in their bill it says that after five years, you can’t go out and buy a health insurance policy on your own
After five years you will not be able to purchase your own healthcare. So that means that in five years those people who are just coming of age and entering the workforce, who will be purchasing healthcare for the first time will not be able to purchase their own policy. Where will they get their healthcare? From the government, of course.
You have to go to one of their government exchanges to buy a plan that was designed by the government,” he added. “So it’s pretty clear that we’re going to have a big government-run system that will eventually drive out the private sector plans we have today
And after the five year mark a big, bloated federal bureaucracy is going to decide whether people who are still on private insurance plans have what they deem to be adequate plans. The government deciding which plan is best for you, not giving you the choice to decide what is best for you.
After five years every employer-sponsored health care benefits have to be approved by the Department of Labor and the new Health Choices Czar to make sure that it meets federal standards
What does all of this mean?
So it’s pretty clear the government is going to design the health insurance policies that are going to be out there,” Boehner reiterated
Do not be fooled by Barack Obama’s false claims that you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. Do not be fooled by the notion that the “public option” government run plan will not choke out the private sector insurance plans. But do not take my word for it, take the word of someone that has a little inside information, Barney Frank. Just watch the video below and you will see him admit that the public option will lead to SINGLE PAYER health insurance, in other words government run healthcare. He admits that the public option is the best way to get to single payer healthcare in the end. They are playing us for fools.
America's Watchtower 
We are fools if we let them force us into this system without protest. And protest we will!
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We must keep calling and emailing them, they cannot avoid us!
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Here is what some of our folks in the medical field think of ObamaCare.
Medical Stimulus Package:
Apparently the American Medical Association has weighed in on the new economic stimulus package….
The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves.
The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.
The Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception.
The Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted.
Pathologists yelled, “Over my dead body!” while the Pediatricians said, ‘Oh, Grow up!’
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it.
Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing.
The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the Plastic Surgeons said, “This puts a whole new face on the matter.”
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea.
The Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and the Cardiologists didn’t have the heart to say no.
In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the assholes in Washington.
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Too funny Texas Fred!
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If the government is able to offer a plan then in just a few short years the private insurers will be forced to leave the playing field and we will have a one payer system with the government in complete control of who gets what and when.
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That is exactly what is going to happen, the
governmentpublic option is going to choke out the private companies. Do enough people understand this?LikeLike
Boehner either misread the bill or is willfully misrepresenting it. In fact, page 16 is the beginning of the section on “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage.” The section that refers to five years is on page 17, but it’s not about pushing Americans off their current health plans. As the summary on Rep. Pete Stark’s (D-CA) website notes, it simply “provides for a five year grace period for current group health plans to meet specified standards.”
In fact, as the Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky points out, the CBO’s coverage tables “undermine the conservative claim that a public option would eliminate private insurance and erode employer-sponsored coverage”:
The House bill actually increases the number of people who receive coverage through their employer by 2 million (in 2019) and shifts most of the uninsured into private coverage. By 2019, 30 million individuals would also purchase coverage from the Exchange, but only 9-10 million Americans (or approximately 1/3) would enroll in the public option, the rest would enroll in private coverage.
So, in Boehner’s world, increased private insurance is a government takeover of health care.
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