Harry Reid states that there will eventually be a public option in healthcare reform

  Harry Reid admitted over the weekend that while the healthcare bill the president signed into law does not include a public option, there will be a public option at some point in the future.

I believe him.

  In my opinion the healthcare legislation was designed so that eventually there would have to be a public option (which will lead to single payer government run healthcare.) As companies begin to drop healthcare benefits– opting instead to pay a small fine– and as insurance companies which are forced to cover people with preexisting conditions begin to go out of business, people will be left looking for affordable healthcare, but they will not be able to find it so the demand will start to rise for a public option to be implemented. And the all too willing federal government will be ready to oblige them. The government will use our freedom of choice to manipulate us into believing that the only choice we have left is to accept a public option. That doesn’t seem like true choice to me whatsoever.

  The plan all along was to devolve healthcare coverage to the point where people would ask the government to step in and save them. Once it gets to the point where people are so desperate to get healthcare coverage that there is overwhelming support for the public option, the people who are looking for government relief will forget that it was government policy that put them in this bind in the first place.

  The people will be willing to accept more government as a solution to a problem that the government is at fault for creating in the first place.  The government is manipulating us for their own empowerment.

  As more and more people begin to require more and more government services for their existence,  our liberty and freedoms become more subservient to the government. The more that we owe the government, the less natural freedoms we have because we will need to follow more government rules and regulations in order to receive our entitlements.  The government is using our freedom to enslave us little by little.

  Couple this with the fact that the Obama regime is going to use the EPA to force cap and trade regulations on us by dictate after the cap and trade legislation came to a standstill in the Senate and we can see that the government is readying itself to intrude on most personal freedoms and choices that we now enjoy as American citizens.

  While surfing the blogs that I stop by on a daily basis, I came across a video of a Ronald Reagan speech at The Reaganite Republican in which Ronald Reagan stated, “as government expands, liberty contracts.” That one statement seems all too fitting today as government is expanding at what seems like a record pace. Americans would do well to listen to and heed the advice of Ronald Reagan, as well as his words– in the very same speech– that “man is not free unless government is limited.”

  Truer words have never been spoken. Our founders knew this, and Americans used to know this but over the years the government has been able to convince an unsettling amount of Americans that our freedoms come from the government– when in fact we have our freedoms in spite of the government. The government has used this misconception over the years to bind us more closely to the federal government and to make us dependent on them at ever increasing rates.

 We are headed in the wrong direction, our liberties are going to be eroded under the guise of healthcare reform and the effort to save the world from our own gluttony.

And we are doing it to ourselves:

“Our freedom’s consuming itself.” Matt Bellamy–Muse (Take a Bow)