If the Statist were to devise such a scheme whereby a grandparent would be stealing future earnings from his own grandchildren, would the grandparent consent to such immoral behaviour? Yet still, entitlement welfare programs tend to be intergenerational swindles the threaten the welfare and well-being of future generations with massive financial obligations incurred from benefits received by today's generation. The Holy Grail of such programs is Social Security, followed by Medicare and Medicaid, both of which are tax-payer subsidized government-run welfare health insurance systems.

Let's analyze and take a close, careful look at President Obama's latest Q and A news conference on Univeral Health Care legislation when Steve Coff of the Cleaveland Daily Plain asked the President a direct question if medical treatment would be rationed under the Universal Health legislated public option:

STEVE COFF:

To follow up on Jake's question earlier sir, so many Americans are concerned that this plan, particularly the government insurance, the public option, would lead to reduced benefits or reduce coverage. Two questions;

1.) Can you guarantee that this legislation can lock in [that is] the government will never deny any services and that these [services delivery system] decisions will be decided by the doctor and the patient and that, the government will not deny any coverage?

Secondarily, can you as a symbolic gesture say that you and the Congress will abide by the same benefits in that public option?

PRESIDENT OBAMA:

Well, one, not only the public option but the insurance regulation that we want to put in place largely match up with what members of Congress are getting now through the federal employee plan. That's a good example of what we're trying to build for the American People. The same thing that Congress enjoys, which is, they go, there's a market place of different plans they can access depending on what's best for their families. Now, one of the plans that we've talked about is the public option. And in part, one of the reasons we want a public option is to just, uh, just help to keep the insurance companies honest, can't deny you care because of a pre-exisiting condition, or because you changed jobs or because they decided you're too sick and you're not a good risk; with regulation there's already going to be some improvement in the insurance industry.

But having a public plan [option] out there that also shows that maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe if you reduce some of the

administrative costs that maybe you can get a better deal that's going to incentivize the private sector to do even better. And that's a good thing. Now, there have been reports of insurance companies making record profits, right now. Right now; at a time when everybody's getting hammered, they're making record profits and premiums are going up. What's the constraint on that? How can you ensure those costs aren't being passed on to empoyers... the American People in a way that over time is going to make them broke. Part of the way is to make sure there's competition out there. That's the idea.

Now, to get to your original question, 'Can I guarantee that, um, that there are going to be no changes in the [current] delivery system? NO.

The whole point of this is to encourage changes that work for the American People and make them healthier. The government is already making some decisions, more importantly, insurance companies, right now, are making those decisions. What we want to do is make sure those decisions are being made by doctors and medical experts [bureaucrats] based on evidence [digital personal medical records on file in Washington DC.] based on what works. Cuz, that's not how it works right now. That's not how it works right now. Right now doctors a lot of the times are forced to make decisions based on the fee-payment schedule [Medicaid-Medicare] that's out there. So if they're looking and if you come in and you have a sore throat, or your child has a sore throat, or has a repeated sore throat the doctor may look at the reimbursement [Medicare-Medicaid] system and say to himself, 'I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out.' Now that may be the right thing to do but I'd rather have that doctor making those decisions based upon whether your kid really  needs them taken out or whether it would make sense to, just, uh, change, uh, maybe they have allergies, maybe they have something else that would make a difference. (see video above.)

So part of what we want to do is free doctors, patients, hospitals to make decisions based upon what's best for the patient and that's the whole idea behind the MAYO Clinic... and the Cleaveland Clinic. I'm going to be in your town tomorrow...to show why, why their system works so well. They've set up a system where patient care is number one concern, not bureaucracy, what forms need to be filled out, what are we going to be reimbursed for...

STEVE COFF:

How about yourself and Congress, will you abide by the same benefits package?

PRESIDENT OBAMA:

Well, you know, I would be happy to abide by the same benifits package. I will just, uh, be honest with you. I'm the President of the United States so I've got a doctor following me every minute. Which is why I say it's not about me, I've got the best healthcare in the world. I'm trying to make sure everybody has good healthcare and they don't right now.

This is about expanding federal power beyond the size and scope of the health insurance industry not health insurance coverage for the American People. The President has all the coverage he needs and you're last on his list. Moreover, you will not be offered the same access to medical benefits that bureaucrats, politicians, senators, congressmen, military brass and other powerbrokers receive. Now, Congress has available to them health carrier options made possible by the private sector and those carriers are private sector health carriers. The quality of care available to the American public is not in question. Americans receive the finest on-demand healthcare in the world and 85 percent of the American population are satisifed with the quality of the medical care they recieve offered by their health carrier. It's the cost of the care that is the issue, not the quality. What the President is saying is that profit motive is the problem. Private sector profit motive is a problem only for the government. The US insurance industry is a massive enterprise and where there's high-end profit there is independence from the State and independence from the State is the biggest threat to the expansion of the State, ie. the Federal Goverment. You eliminate the threat by undercutting competition and drive it out of business leaving only a federal welfare program, a public option left.

Furthermore, within this welfare public option program, the President cannot, nor is willing to guarantee that Americans won't be denied coverage and that medical care won't be rationed. Count on it and expect it.

All welfare program benefits are decided and issued by a committe of bureaucrats. What this means is your health care decisions will no longer be decided by you and your doctor. (see AP video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ2jB-R9EsY) A physician on the federal payrole will dictate to your doctor what medical care will be made available to you and if your doctor disagrees, your doctor will no longer have the priviledge of practicing medicine. In the case of a patient who may need a pacemaker, why would the government pay for a procedure when it costs the government less to have the presiding physician prescribe, however inadequate, cardiac medication instead? Insurance companies and the Federal Goverment have one thing in common; neither is out to lose money, they are out to raise money and that's direct competition; that is, it's a direct threat to expanding federal power. The American People become collateral damage. That is, collateral damage the Federal Government under the Obama White House can live with.

It's widely know that the modern liberal's purpose is to grow the government, tax and spend and tax again, and make as many individuals as possible dependent on the government and 295 million American's are satisfied with the quality of the healthcare they receive. But for the modern liberal, he seeks to reach into prosperity to constrain liberty tomorrow. A few well-placed political appointees will decide who gets treament and who doesn't and ultimately, who lives and who dies; for the modern liberal this is the ultimate authority over the individiual. Once the individual is trapped, the modern liberal controls his fate. Individuals will be seduced by the notion that he is receiving a benefit while the government is merely rationing benefits. That is, the individual will be tethered to the State, literally, and utterly reliant on the state for his health and survival.

The proof as they say, is in the pudding.

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