“The Patients’ Choice Act of 2009 is an effective alternative to the rationing-based, bureaucrat-run, federal-government-centric proposals being kicked around.”
As opposed to the ration-based, private industry bean counter, run proposal? This “ration based” stuff isn’t going to fly. With private insurance health plans we have rationed care now. They also routinely overrule doctors treatment protocols (usually for a cheaper alternative). Only a fool would argue otherwise. No matter who runs healthcare, government or private, there ARE going to be controls. Private sector health plans do not care about your health. They care about profit. Their only function is to take in more money in premiums that they pay out in claims. They answer to shareholders, not patients and their doctors. If you like your private healthcare plan you can keep it under the Obama proposal. However, your private plan will have to compete with a government plan (similar to MediCare). Why would conservatives be against competition? because they know that the government plan will be more generous and those who choose it can keep it for life regardless of employment, etc. They know the government plan will be more attractive than anything that they can offer. They know that they will eventually die (and they should).
The only thing that the author correctly points out is that the GOP plan will never see the light of day. Another reason conservatives don’t like the idea of universal healthcare is because one of the unintended consequences of such a plan is that it will create a new and huge block of Democratic voters. Once healthcare is passed, and it will be, the Democrats will be viewed as the party that kept their promise. The Republicans will be viewed as the party that said no to their children. Once that happens the GOp won’t be able to pry that vote out of their cold dead hand.
