The President's Imaginary Health Plan

From National Review Online.

"The president launched a last-ditch effort to pass a government takeover of American health care yesterday. To hear him tell it, his plan would let every American keep the health insurance he has today if he wants to. And it would reduce premiums, cut taxes for the middle class, slow the pace of rising costs, reduce the federal budget deficit, and keep bureaucrats out of health-care decisions too."

Employers would opt to pay the fine instead of continuing health care coverage--the federal government is the largest payroll in this country, and guess who would be the first one to abdicate it's health care duties in favor of the fine? Every military person, every civil service worker (including the post office), every Washington politician, everyone currently on Medicaid, everyone currently using VA medical services, and every senior citizen at or over 65 would be dumped--what a way to shirk self-imposed responsibility!

They say they want government control of health care--they already HAD most of it.