Bloodthirsty Liberal

You know, in our own meager way, dimly and painstakingly, we are coming to grips with Obama’s plans for socialized medicine—and in our own meager (never mind, you get it)—we hate it:

RUSH: … This morning on Good Morning America, the day-long ABC infomercial on Obamacare, Diane Sawyer talked to the Bamster himself this morning. She said, “Is it time for Americans to recognize that they’re going to get fewer scans, fewer procedures, fewer tests?”

OBAMA: The measure of the quality of care is not quantity, but whether or not it is making you better. What we’ve said is, let’s put out the research, let’s study and figure out what works and what doesn’t.

SAWYER: Will there be aboard making Solomonic decisions about best practices –

OBAMA: What I’ve suggested is is that we have a — a commission that helps — made up of doctors, made up of experts, that helps set best practices.

RUSH: The doctors and experts paid for by Obama. Doctors and experts are going to be dependent on Obama for their income. So of course they’re going to have to speak the party line. The bottom line is you’re going to get a board full of a bunch of bureaucrats deciding what medical care that you get. And it’s not going to be based on the quality of care. It’s going to be based on what they think is worth spending on you.

Okay, maybe I let Rush editorialize there for a minute (he went on for more than one, believe me), but let’s get back to Dr. White House:

RUSH: … There’s a reason, we don’t need to give you a test. You’re sick because you’ve been eating all this rotgut we’ve been warning you against for 30 years. Screw you. And you say, “Okay, well, I’ll go to my own doctor.” No, there won’t be a private doctor for you to go to. Sad to say. And surprise, surprise. His thinking on mandates is now evolved. Remember he blasted Hillary for having mandates during the campaign, but his promise of having no mandates has expired. Diane Sawyer said, “Will you accept mandates with fines for individuals if they don’t sign up? You were against that during the campaign.”

OBAMA: I have to tell you that this is an area where people have made some pretty compelling arguments to me, that if we want to have a system that drives down costs for everybody, then we’ve gotta have healthier people not opt out of the system. I think my thinking on the issue of mandates has evolved.

RUSH: Well, what else needs to be said? Everything else that he said yesterday in his press conference about competition, private sector versus the public option is just meaningless. He’s now evolved on mandates. Fines for individuals if you don’t sign up for health care. Remember, Mrs. Clinton, this was a biggie. They were going to force you into this, and Obama, no, no, we can’t do that. But he’s had some pretty compelling arguments made for him, he’s changed his mind on this, the system drives down the costs for everybody we gotta have healthier people, so he’s gonna mandate it. All the rest of this is BS.

“[I]f we want to have a system that drives down costs for everybody, then we’ve gotta have healthier people not opt out of the system. I think my thinking on the issue of mandates has evolved.”

Have you ever heard anything more Orwellian than that out of the White House? Not just the euphemism for LYING—but government requiring, demanding, compelling, mandating healthy people be drafted into a government-operated health care system, whether they want to or not.

This is the devil of socialized medicine with nary even a Groucho nose and glasses of disguise. And socialized medicine always—always—means worse care and longer waits for it.

As the old joke goes, two old people are complaining about a restaurant. One comments about how terrible the food is, and the other agrees, adding “And such small portions!” Welcome to ObamaCare.