WEEKLY EDITORIAL RECAP
MONdaY, JULY 22
SOME DEMS WARY OF OBAMACARE
... In fact, what President Obama and leading Democrats want is a "single-payer" socialized medicine system, run entirely by the government, with "cost savings" accrued through telling sick people to wait months for treatment, since everyone knows treatment costs drop enormously if the patient dies before you get around to him -- or her.
But polls tell them Americans won't stand for European-style "single payer" socialized rationing enacted all at once. So they came up with this scheme, which supposedly allows private insurance companies to "compete" with the very government that orders them to add more and more stuff into their plans, making them more and more expensive, knowing full well this will lead to the eventual collapse of more and more private plans, until only one "insurer" remains -- Uncle Sam. ...
Last Friday, although the House Committee on Education and Labor OK'd the legislation before them on a 26-22 vote, three Democrats found the courage to stand up and vote for their constituents, instead of for the machine.
They are Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania, Jared Polis of Colorado, and Dina Titus of Nevada. ...
We've had our disagreements with Dina Titus. ... But she deserves lots of credit for finding the courage to stand up to her agenda-blinded leadership, speaking out for her constituents' legitimate fiscal concerns, digging in her heels as the Washington lemmings insist on racing us off the tax-and-inflation cliff in the midst of a deep recession. ...
