Obama, Frank, Schakowsky: All Proponents of ‘Single-Payer,’ Government-Run Health Care, All Convinced a ‘Public Option’ is the Way to Get There (Hint: They’re Right)

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 3rd at 10:00 AM  | 

Obama (D-IL): “I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process” (3/24/07, at SEIU “Universal Health Care Forum”); “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care system” (2003 at AFL-CIO event) Frank (D-MA): “I think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single-payer; that’s the | Read More »

Senate Health Overhaul Bill Lays the Trillion-Dollar Groundwork for a Government Takeover of Health Care

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 18th at 06:02 PM  | 

The Orwellianly-titled American Health Choices Act, a health care overhaul bill the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed Tuesday with a 13-10 party line vote, contains a two-pronged mechanism for increasing government’s already enormous footprint within the health care market, and for driving private insurance into the ground. When the first public draft of the American Health Choices Act (AHCA) was released | Read More »