Obama’s lost Baltimore weekend
President makes truth-or-dare admission about forced government option in health care plan
The best way for Americans to avoid the painful “I told you so” moment that would follow enactment of the overarching health care plan Democrats are hatching in black box conference sessions would be to have some reasons to believe that Republican claims that the bill will effectively shove all Americans into a single-payer government managed health care system have some basis in fact.
For all of the fussmaking over whether the President should credit for being bipartisan because he attended the House Republican’s Baltimore Retreat over the past weekend, his candor about the current health care bills and where they stand on forcing Americans into government-planned care may be the most reasonable offering President Obama has made to the debate in the past year.
Speaking to the GOP membership, Obama dispensed with the talking points about forced single-payer. (Video below, courtesy of the House Republican Conference YouTube page.)
“We said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your… if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it. That you’re not gonna have anybody getting in between you and you and your doctor in your decision-making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”
It seems as though that alone should be cause for the American people to demand – not request – that the doors of the Pelosi/Reid Star Chamber be thrown open so that the public can weigh on in the final health care solution Democrats still seem poised to impose on the entire population.
You know the drill. Call your elected representatives. If you don’t already have their numbers on speed dial, go to OpenCongress.org for a range of ways to voice your opinion.
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