The Obama White House is hard at work trying to make sure that you don’t see, or at least don’t believe, what Obama said about his goals for healthcare reform prior to the current push for legislation in Congress. For instance, here’s one video published by the White House:
This particular video is in response to this one:
The ploy here is to make such a clamor about what BHO has said before public groups in 2009 that it will hopefully drown out what he said before “friendlies” (and make no mistake, an AFL-CIO meeting is a friendly crowd for him) in 2003. How can we know what his true intentions are? Answer: We can’t! We cannot trust that what he says today is the unvarnished truth concerning his intentions for the future of healthcare in the United States. He is in full salesman mode today, and will say anything to make you believe that his plans are innocuous where your choices and liberty are concerned. Videos like the one featuring Linda Douglas above are propaganda tools.
Think about this: Obama has said a thousand times, “If you like your current plan, you can keep it.” What did he NOT say? He did not say that you could switch from your current plan to another private plan. Under legislation currently pending in Congress, you could either keep the coverage you had at the time the new system went into effect, or you could switch to the “public option” plan. That’s it: Keep what you have right now, or go with Uncle Sam’s grand plan – no other option. Do you like the sound of that? Where does that leave you when your current insurer decides to exit the business, as Pelosi, Reid, and their minions intend? Then the “public option” has become your “only option.”
Ask your Representative or Senator, “Will I be able to choose from any private plan, or only between what I currently have and the government plan?” I don’t believe you’ll get a straight answer to that question from a backer of government-run healthcare. Don’t let them bob and weave like the White House is currently doing.
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