[From article]
What Noam Scheiber and Michael Moore want is a system of socialized medicine run by the federal government, not unlike what they have in Britain, Canada, and continental Europe. What Noam Scheiber does not say is where the rich entrepreneurs and Canadian premiers – like Danny Williams of Newfoundland – will go for health care once America’s system is beset by rationing and a lack of medical innovation, as those socialist systems are. Williams shocked his voters by making a beeline to the states for heart surgery. He claimed to be a big supporter of Canada’s single-payer system, but, he said with Gruber-like candor, “this is my heart.” Exactly.
[. . .]
But here we have the left celebrating dishonesty, crowing about sneakiness. President Obama, as the estimable Charles Krauthammer pointed out, assured us no fewer than 31 times that if we like our doctor, we can keep our doctor. That massive, deliberate, and oft-repeated lie was central to Barack Obama’s election and re-election. It was the Noble Lie of the Left required to get ObamaCare passed in 2010.
[. . .]
ObamaCare was passed by a Democratic Congress in 2010 because those congressmen did not read it. And even if they had read it, Jonathan Gruber and his ilk had written it in such a “tortured” way (his phrase) that it was nigh impossible to tell what it meant.
[. . .]
There’s no indication that the academic audience was in any way offended by Gruber’s confession of dishonesty. It seems they may actually have liked his deceit, too.
[. . .]
Jonathan Gruber will not be flogged. Josh Earnest disavowed him. Gruber will probably get off with just a tongue-lashing in the media – if they have to notice him at all. But the rest of us will be flogged, every day of our lives, by ObamaCare – until it is repealed.
http://www.americanthinker.
November 17, 2014
Gruber Lets Obama's Socialist Cat Out of the Bag
By Ken Blackwell & Bob Morrison
No comments:
Post a Comment