Democrats Covertly Plan for a Complete Takeover of Healthcare
The fight over Obamacare isn't over.
by Deane Waldman
August 2, 2021, 12:32 AM
At present, Washington controls the health care for nearly half — 151.8 million or 46 percent — of the U.S. population. Enrollment in government health insurance programs are as follows: 81 million in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program; 61.2 million on Medicare; and 9.6 million on Tricare. Recall that Medicaid was intended expressly and solely for the “aged, blind and disabled.”
Half is not enough for progressives; they want to practice medicine on all Americans.
The assertion that beltway politicians and bureaucrats practice medicine (without a license) on you is no exaggeration. Ask any provider of medical care. Washington “guidelines” tell physicians what medications they can and cannot prescribe, where and when procedures can be done or denied, obstruct communication between providers, and delay vitally needed care until it is literally too late. Politicians issue official advisories and then absolve themselves, proclaiming they merely made some suggestions. Meanwhile, insurance executives, hospital administrators, and licensing agencies act as agents of the government, imposing federal “suggestions” like commandments.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), particularly with Medicaid expansion, achieved control of half of U.S. healthcare (see numbers above). This was a brute force act imposed on the American people against their will. It was the only major social welfare program ever passed without a single minority party vote, designed in smoke-filled backrooms, played out with the arm-twisting and chicanery worthy of its namesake Chicago political enforcer, and dependent on “Americans’ ignorance,” according to ACA architect and discredited healthcare consultant, Jonathan Gruber.
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