Impeding changes to our Health Care system

This is especially so because the administration and its allies, without being candid about what is afoot, are trying to put the nation on a glide path to a "single-payer" — entirely government-run — system. They would do this by creating a government health insurance plan to compete with private insurers. It would be able to — indeed, would be intended to — push private insurers out of business.

Imagine.....George Will, a conservative columnist, who thinks the govt should do nothing more than it did in 1787, misrepresenting Obama's health plan with the scare of a "government-run" health care system...and freezing out the private sector.

Instead, imagine the truth.....a plan that allows/encourages workers with employer-provided coverage to keep that plan if they so choose but provides more choices, in the same manner as the govt employee plan with options provided by numerous private insurers

And a plan that would allow small business to create health pools to have that same option of choosing from among a plan administered by the govt but providing choices from private insurers.

Merc and Classic.....do you guys ever take the time to look for the facts or just jump on the first editorial opinion that supports your pre-conceived position.

Dont bother answering....your posts speak for themselves.

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The best throw away line of Will's editorial, re: interrogation/torture techniques:

Furthermore, four of the president's 15 Cabinet members are former members of Congress, as are the president, vice president and White House chief of staff. So seven of the administration's 18 most senior figures might usefully answer those questions, and this one: What did you do about what you knew

Imagine the truth...that neither Obama nor any of those cabinet members or senior officials, were chairs or ranking members of the Intel Committees, so none received classified briefings on the torture memos.