Public Reid's Option = No Option - Government Bureaucrats Will Decide Your Health Care

Gary Bauer, campaign for Working Families: Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid announced this afternoon that he intends to force a vote on the government-run “public option” because his private discussions with fellow senators indicate there are nearly 60 senators willing to support it in one form or another.

Let me remind you again what the public option is all about. President Obama has said that the public option could force insurance companies to be “honest” and lower costs by having to compete against the federal government. Today, Reid repeated those claims. But, as the AP “fact check” report makes clear, the insurance industry is not reaping “obscene” profits. The real goal is to bankrupt the insurance companies, putting them out of business, thereby making the government-run public option the only option.

Honest advocates of the public option admit that it is the vehicle through which they will achieve government-run socialized healthcare. Read this column and watch the video at the end. And if you need more proof of the public option Trojan horse, watch this video of Barney Frank saying that the public option, with its “strength and power,” is the best way to get a socialized single payer system.

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Washington News Observer: Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. Says Government Bureaucrats Will Decide Your Health Care [Video]

Sen. Coburn Soundbites:
"What will happen, ultimately, is you will move to a public option which will decrease the number of people with private insurance, number two it'll raise the cost of those that are left with private insurance, and ultimately a government bureaucrat will decide what kind of health care you get."
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"I don't know whether a final package whenever it finally comes out of conference will have a public option but if it is that's the start to single payer."
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"Nobody knows what's in the bill. The bill came out of help committee and created 88 new programs. If you think the federal government isn't going to be involved in your health care with 88 new bureaucracies you've got another thought coming because this is a government centric run at health care rather than a patient centered run at health care."

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