Why is the Public Option so important to this administration?Especially since they only expect less than 5% of the population to sign up for it? Did anyone notice how excited Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the thugs got when the public option was mentioned during the Obama speech? This Public Option is key to them because it will lead to a total government control of healthcare.What is going to happen to everyones insurance premiums when these insurance companies implement all of these government regulations? They will have to severely raise their rates to cover everyone and all medical conditions.This cost is passed on to either the private corporation trying to provide for it's employees or to the private citizen "shopping" for healthcare insurance.These private corporations would then decide to drop their healthcare coverage and tell their employees to go on the public option.

Congressman Joe Wilson stopped the world with a shout this week, when he yelled,  "YOU LIE" at Obama.  That came after 'The One' stated that illegal immigrants would not be covered in his healthcare plan.  Wilson's two words, now famous, came out with a curious authority that was more than just an outburst.  Orlean Koehle, State President of Eagle Forum of California, forwarded an email to me from Allen Ide of Deleware that explains the oomph behind the shout:  

The latest on Obamacare...

The Associated Press took a look at some of the "math" Obama used in his speech relating to the deficit (and Obamacare's impact) and decided it was "iffy" at best.  And again, this is the "Associated Press" we're talking about... not exactly a bulwark of objectivity.

The Wall Street Journal looks at the implications of Obamacare on labor unions... as in it will amount to one great big early Christmas present with all sorts of goodies, (like forced unionization of some health care workers for example).  Just another example of the type of garbage one can usually expect to be buried in any bill that has "comprehensive" in the title.

In a rambling speech regarding the excellence of Obama's Health Scrare Plan (9/9/09), one congressman, Joe Wilson (R-SC) struggled to keep himself in order until Obama stated: "Illegal immigrants will not receive healthcare coverage." That was [the] one mis-statement too many that propelled the congressman to yell out for the world to hear, "You lie!"  

 The deftly installed president had been denying his own words and writing that is in his healthcare plan for America. He even had the audacity to deny that medical care would be rationed or even denied in certain situations and ridiculed those who questioned these  provisions.  

As if Americans didn't have enough reasons already to oppose - or at least be suspicious of - the efforts of the far-left on the issue of healthcare, the hits just keep on coming.

The latest comes from an analysis of the pending Democrat plans by Mark Mix of the Wall Street Journal.

It turns out, the one thousand-plus pages have been hiding early Christmas presents to the Democrat's buddies in the unions, ranging from bailouts of their own health care plans to the forced unionization of American health care workers.

From the article:

After President Obama's speech tonight, it is still apparent that he is defying the will of the American people who do not want a government option included in health care reform or the numerous government mandates he listed in his speech.  The including of a so-called "trigger" - blackmailing health care insurance companies, as some Democrats propose - basically guarantees a government-run health care system in America. 

The fact that American taxpayers will eventually pay for elective abortions is abominable and is reason enough to vote against the health care bill being proposed by the Democrats.

You can always tell when a politician has an election coming up that they're a little worried about.  They start to talk like this:

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., announced Wednesday that she would not support a bill that included a public option because she believed it would be too expensive.

Lincoln told the Elder Law Task Force at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences that a public option would create another entitlement program.

"And we can't afford that right now as a nation," she said.

I guess the only surprise is that it took her this long (and a month of being back home) to come to that conclussion.  And I'm sure that the fact that she's up for re-election next year in a state the didn't go blue even with Obama at the top of the ticket has nothing to do with it.

But we'll take what we can get.

Don't get too secure though, keep speaking out.  Especially if you live in Arkansas.

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