George Rebane

The President’s ‘news conference’ last night was Orwellian.  The man can lie with a straight face so well it is scary, and the sheeple just believe.  Here’s an interview that former Senator Fred Thompson had on his radio show with former New York Lt Gov Betsy McCaughey.  You can download a copy of the bill now working through the House here, and read it yourself.  If you only read the pages cited in the interview, you should get a cold chill at what is in store for us – especially if you’ve already had a lot of birthdays.  This is the stuff of Hitler and Stalin, both of whom knew how to reduce healthcare costs in their populations.

Pages 16,17 will quickly convince you that, contrary to what our President and the Dems tell us, we will not be able to keep our previous healthcare insurance for long.  The conditions imposed for doing that will have your insurance provider pull the plug very quickly after Obamacare becomes law, and then you’ll be at the mercy of the government’s “public option” monopoly.

And take a look at pages 425, 426 to see what one of their tender mercies will look like.  After a given age you will have to start getting end-of-life counseling every five years to convince you that death is nigh, you shouldn’t expect to fight it with modern medicine, and here’s how you can get yourself checked into the nearest hospice so you can check out before you run up the bill too much.  This will be socialized medicine on steroids. (more analysis here)

Now you know why this “piece of s#%t” (Congressman John Boehner) needs to be rushed through Congress quickly and signed into law before too many Americans understand what is in store for us all.  And they just look at you and lie.

ps. and we haven’t even started on the cost related lies.  Stay tuned.

pps. H/T to an RR reader from Washington state.

[update] Lo and behold, in today’s (23jul09) WSJ Betsy McCaughey writes ‘GovernmentCare’s Assault on Seniors’, making the case that rationing healthcare will hit seniors especially hard.