Left is Attacking the Free Market – Not Just Health Insurance
The left is indeed on the attack against free market capitalism, not just health insurance. This can be seen by their constant rhetoric against the insurance companies, bankers, wall street, and big corporations.
If you haven’t noticed the news lately, they have even begun to blame the ‘town hall’ outcries that are all over the nation on nothing more than insurance company operatives that are purposely planted in the town hall meetings to cause a ruckus. – Unbelievable. For some reason, they can’t seem to accept the fact that the American people want to maintain their freedom in health care, and do not want government bureaucrats to decided their ongoing health decisions.
In an excellent article by Ernest Istook on The Foundry, he points out the blatant attack by the left on ‘free enterprise’ and their desire to remove capitalism so that the business decisions (and profits) can fall into the hands of a select governmental elite. An excerpt from the article is below…
It’s becoming clearer by the day that the “public option” for health care is just rhetorical cover for kicking out free enterprise.
The latest evidence is the strategy to attack and condemn private insurance. Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls the industry “immoral villains.” President Obama told the press, “If you take some of the profit motive out . . . you can get an even better deal.” He also told NBC, “People are having bad experiences because they know that recommendations are coming from people who have a profit motive.”
The head of the House’s ultra-liberal 80-member Progressive Caucus, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), told reporters that the number of uninsured is a symptom that private insurance is a failure and must be replaced with a single-payer government system.
That’s right, the ‘immoral villains’ are not the ‘left wing’ who want to confiscate 40-50% of your income and place it into government’s hands, but are the insurance companies who are so evil as to seek a profit on the corporations they run that provide millions of jobs for individuals and families across our great nation. Least we forget, that these companies allow Americans to feed their families, provide homes for their children, and take their loved ones of vacation. But corporations are so evil, evil, evil…Baloney.
Mr. Istook continues to point out this fallacy in the rest of the article…
How absurd. Why blame companies because not everybody has bought their product? Why not blame government for passing the laws and the over-regulation that designed our current flawed system?
Pelosi and friends also claim insurance companies are out of control because they’re too big. Their answer? Something even bigger and less accountable—a government-run plan.
The new strategy of the left is actually an echo of what then-First Lady Hillary Clinton told an audience when pushing HillaryCare. She proclaimed that it’s wrong for anyone to make a profit by treating or insuring the sick.
So is it also evil to make money by providing necessities like food, clothing, and a place to live? Is it only acceptable to make a profit if you’re selling whatever government deems is okay?
And if health insurance is immoral, what about life insurance, auto insurance, property insurance, etc.? Will government also “help us” by taking them over to drive out the evil profit motive?
The Left has launched a dangerous debate on health care, but it’s actually an extension of their attacks on Wall Street, banking, mortgage brokers, and others. They believe the bad mistakes made by business are an opportunity for more government control, which means more power for the political elite.
The last line of the excerpt is right on target for the motives of the left. They believe they can deceive the nation into handing more of our freedoms into their hands. Their motive? To increase their power by extending government control over our lives.
Not exactly moral, if you ask me?
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