Imagine going to Baskin & Robbins, or Bresslers, or any of those other ice cream parlors whose trademark is a bewildering variety of flavors, and being told that chocolate & vanilla are the only flavors available.
"But I had raspberry swirl just last week!" you meekly protest, seeing dozens of buckets of other flavors under the glass.
"That was last week, that's no longer a flavor", comes the flat response.
"What about all these other flavors I'm looking at in front of me?"
"Chocolate, or vanilla", the worker says, unmoved by your growing disbelief that those are the only choices you're being given. You know good & well that there are other flavors, but the question is posed as if it were as cut & dried as "regular or decaf".
This is pretty much how the American public is manipulated into accepting things they would normally reject, and do so vehemently. The difference is that chocolate & vanilla may be both quite acceptable to you, even though you'd rather have something else.
But now we have either government run health care (the option you're supposed to accept), or the continued health care crisis (which the media & government have helped to create), "unbridled corporate greed" (a mantra of socialists), etc.
Joe Galloway, in his otherwise respectable article entitled "Hope for change gives way to 'No, We Can't'", says that the proposed health care bill would "include a public option...to provide competition for insurance companies and a negotiating lever to lower the price of pharmaceuticals."
First, when has the government ever fostered competition in the private sector? Second, the best way government can encourage competition (they can't actually provide it) is to reduce the burdensome regulation that prevents smaller companies from having any chance in the marketplace, effectively squeezing them out.
I haven't read the health care bill, nor do I intend to. I have, however, read the Constitution, and see no justification for the government being involved in any way in health care.
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