With the Democrats getting slaughtered -- or should I say receiving mandatory end-of-life counseling -- in the debate over national health care the Obama administration has decided to change the subject by indicting CIA interrogators for talking tough to three of the worlds leading Muslim terrorists.
Had I been asked I would have advised them against reinforcing the idea that Democrats are hysterical bed-wetters who cant be trusted with national defense while also reminding people of the one thing everyone still admires about President George W. Bush.
But I guess the Democrats really want to change the subject. Thus here is Part 2 in our series of liberal lies about national health care.
(6) There will be no rationing under national health care.
Anyone who says that is a liar. And all Democrats are saying it. (Hey look -- I have two-thirds of a syllogism!)
Apparently promising to cut costs by having a panel of Washington bureaucrats (for short The Death Panel) deny medical treatment wasnt a popular idea with most Americans. So liberals started claiming that they are going to cover an additional 47 million uninsured Americans and cut costs ... without ever denying a single medical treatment!
Also on the agenda is a delicious all-you-can-eat chocolate cake that will actually help you lose weight! But first lets go over the specs for my perpetual motion machine -- and it uses no energy so its totally green!
For you newcomers to planet Earth everything that does not exist in infinite supply is rationed. In a free society people are allowed to make their own rationing choices.
Some people get new computers every year; some every five years. Some White House employees get new computers and then vandalize them on the way out the door when their candidate loses. (These are the same people who will be making decisions about your health care.)
Similarly one person might say I want to live it up and spend freely now! No one lives forever. (That person is a Democrat.) And another might say I dont go to restaurants I dont go to the theater and I dont buy expensive designer clothes because Ive decided to pour all my money into my health.
Under national health care youll have no choice about how to ration your own health care. If your neighbor isnt entitled to a hip replacement then neither are you. At least thats how the plan was explained to me by our next surgeon general Dr. Conrad Murray.
(7) National health care will reduce costs.
This claim comes from the same government that gave us the $500 hammer the $1200 toilet seat and postage stamps that increase in price every three weeks.
The last time liberals decided an industry was so important that the government needed to step in and contain costs was when they set their sights on the oil industry. Liberals in both the U.S. and Canada -- presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter and Canadian P.M. Pierre Trudeau -- imposed price controls on oil.
As night leads to day price controls led to reduced oil production which led to oil shortages skyrocketing prices for gasoline rationing schemes and long angry lines at gas stations.
You may recall this era as the Carter years.
Then the white knight Ronald Reagan became president and immediately deregulated oil prices. The magic of the free market -- aka the profit motive -- produced surges in oil exploration and development causing prices to plummet. Prices collapsed and remained low for the next 20 years helping to fuel the greatest economic expansion in our nations history.
You may recall this era as the Reagan years.
Freedom not only allows you to make your own rationing choices but also produces vastly more products and services at cheap prices so less rationing is necessary.
(8) National health care wont cover abortions.
There are three certainties in life: (a) death (b) taxes and (C) no health care bill supported by Nita Lowey and Rosa DeLauro and signed by Barack Obama could possibly fail to cover abortions.
I dont think that requires elaboration but here it is:
Despite being a thousand pages long the health care bills passing through Congress are strikingly nonspecific. (Also in a thousand pages Democrats werent able to squeeze in one paragraph on tort reform. Perhaps they were trying to save paper.)
These are Trojan Horse bills. Of course they dont include the words abortion death panels or three-year waits for hip-replacement surgery.
That proves nothing -- the bills set up unaccountable unelected federal commissions to fill in the horrible details. Notably the Democrats rejected an amendment to the bill that would specifically deny coverage for abortions.
After the bill is passed the Federal Health Commission will find that abortion is covered pro-lifers will sue and a court will say its within the regulatory authority of the health commission to require coverage for abortions.
Then well watch a parade of senators and congressmen indignantly announcing Well Im pro-life and if I had had any idea this bill would cover abortions I never would have voted for it!
No wonder Democrats want to remind us that they cant be trusted with foreign policy. They want us to forget that they cant be trusted with domestic policy.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
With the Democrats getting slaughtered -- or should I say receiving mandatory end-of-life counseling -- in the debate over national health care the Obama administration has decided to change the subject by indicting CIA interrogators for talking tough to three of the worlds leading Muslim terrorists.
Had I been asked I would have advised them against reinforcing the idea that Democrats are hysterical bed-wetters who cant be trusted with national defense while also reminding people of the one thing everyone still admires about President George W. Bush.
But I guess the Democrats really want to change the subject. Thus here is Part 2 in our series of liberal lies about national health care.
(6) There will be no rationing under national health care.
Anyone who says that is a liar. And all Democrats are saying it. (Hey look -- I have two-thirds of a syllogism!)
Apparently promising to cut costs by having a panel of Washington bureaucrats (for short The Death Panel) deny medical treatment wasnt a popular idea with most Americans. So liberals started claiming that they are going to cover an additional 47 million uninsured Americans and cut costs ... without ever denying a single medical treatment!
Also on the agenda is a delicious all-you-can-eat chocolate cake that will actually help you lose weight! But first lets go over the specs for my perpetual motion machine -- and it uses no energy so its totally green!
For you newcomers to planet Earth everything that does not exist in infinite supply is rationed. In a free society people are allowed to make their own rationing choices.
Some people get new computers every year; some every five years. Some White House employees get new computers and then vandalize them on the way out the door when their candidate loses. (These are the same people who will be making decisions about your health care.)
Similarly one person might say I want to live it up and spend freely now! No one lives forever. (That person is a Democrat.) And another might say I dont go to restaurants I dont go to the theater and I dont buy expensive designer clothes because Ive decided to pour all my money into my health.
Under national health care youll have no choice about how to ration your own health care. If your neighbor isnt entitled to a hip replacement then neither are you. At least thats how the plan was explained to me by our next surgeon general Dr. Conrad Murray.
(7) National health care will reduce costs.
This claim comes from the same government that gave us the $500 hammer the $1200 toilet seat and postage stamps that increase in price every three weeks.
The last time liberals decided an industry was so important that the government needed to step in and contain costs was when they set their sights on the oil industry. Liberals in both the U.S. and Canada -- presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter and Canadian P.M. Pierre Trudeau -- imposed price controls on oil.
As night leads to day price controls led to reduced oil production which led to oil shortages skyrocketing prices for gasoline rationing schemes and long angry lines at gas stations.
You may recall this era as the Carter years.
Then the white knight Ronald Reagan became president and immediately deregulated oil prices. The magic of the free market -- aka the profit motive -- produced surges in oil exploration and development causing prices to plummet. Prices collapsed and remained low for the next 20 years helping to fuel the greatest economic expansion in our nations history.
You may recall this era as the Reagan years.
Freedom not only allows you to make your own rationing choices but also produces vastly more products and services at cheap prices so less rationing is necessary.
(8) National health care wont cover abortions.
There are three certainties in life: (a) death (b) taxes and (C) no health care bill supported by Nita Lowey and Rosa DeLauro and signed by Barack Obama could possibly fail to cover abortions.
I dont think that requires elaboration but here it is:
Despite being a thousand pages long the health care bills passing through Congress are strikingly nonspecific. (Also in a thousand pages Democrats werent able to squeeze in one paragraph on tort reform. Perhaps they were trying to save paper.)
These are Trojan Horse bills. Of course they dont include the words abortion death panels or three-year waits for hip-replacement surgery.
That proves nothing -- the bills set up unaccountable unelected federal commissions to fill in the horrible details. Notably the Democrats rejected an amendment to the bill that would specifically deny coverage for abortions.
After the bill is passed the Federal Health Commission will find that abortion is covered pro-lifers will sue and a court will say its within the regulatory authority of the health commission to require coverage for abortions.
Then well watch a parade of senators and congressmen indignantly announcing Well Im pro-life and if I had had any idea this bill would cover abortions I never would have voted for it!
No wonder Democrats want to remind us that they cant be trusted with foreign policy. They want us to forget that they cant be trusted with domestic policy.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
