Barack Obama says he doesn’t want government-run healthcare. Barack Obama is lying. Government-run healthcare is exactly what he wants.

Why?

It all comes back to the Cloward-Piven strategy, which, in my opinion and as I’ve stated several times before, is the driving force behind practically every single major social and economic change Obama has made, is making or is proposing.

Picture this: The Obama administration achieves its goal of universal healthcare and then follows it up with amnesty for 20 million illegal aliens - which, by the way, is next on the agenda - what do you suppose will happen to our economy at that point?

On June 15th, the Congressional Budget Office released its projections of what just ONE section of the Kennedy healthcare proposal would cost: 1 TRILLION dollars from 2010 to 2019, and this is without the cost of a government-run insurance plan (the ‘public option’) figured.

From the CBO’s letter to Senator Kennedy (all emphasis mine):

The attached table summarizes our preliminary assessment of the proposal’s budgetary effects and its likely impact on insurance coverage. According to that assessment, enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion over the 2010–2019 period. Once the proposal was fully implemented, about 39 million individuals would obtain coverage through the new insurance exchanges. At the same time, the number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million.

So, according to the CBO;

  • By 2019, 39 million people would be covered by the government plan
  • In the same time frame, approximately 23 million people would lose their current insurance coverage from employer or other private sources
  • When all is said and done, only 16 million people would have benefited from the new healthcare reform.

Total reform and overhaul of the world’s best healthcare system just to bring health insurance to 16 million people?

Doesn’t the fact that we’re getting another classic Obama “rush rush rush, we have to do this NOW or there’ll be no turning back om the certain destruction that awaits us!” raise any red flags with anybody?

Based on what’s been coming out of congress recently, the above CBO numbers are rosy at best, as they seem to assume that the private insurance industry would still be up and running, when it fact it would more than likely be completely decimated under any of the current health care proposals, - both official and unofficial - coming out of Washington. As the following videos will illustrate, total decimation of the private health insurance industry is, in fact, this administration’s end game.

For example, here is Rep Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee - the committe currently debating the healthcare bill. Pay very careful attention to what she has to say in this video:

Next up is a video of Barack Obama, UC Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) all pushing the virtues of a single-payer universal healthcare system. Watch this one all the way to the end, as the closing comments by Obama himself will leave you with no illusions whatsoever about what his plans are.

Let’s look at what else has been proposed to date:

  • Make health insurance mandatory. You will be insured whether you want it or not.
  • Require employers to provide a minimum level of insurance, which may actually be a higher level than the employer currently provides or can afford, causing the employer to stop providing insurance altogether
  • Require employees with employer-provided health benefits to pay tax on those benefits (Union members will be exempt from this tax)
  • Force private insurers to accept customers with preexisting conditions. This alone may be enough to put private insurers out of business. At the very least it will cause private insurance rates to skyrocket. Can you imaging crashing your car and then going out the next day and buying collision insurance from your auto insurance provider and then expecting them to cover your crash? How many times do you think they could do that before going broke?

From Fox News:

“Obama also said he’s changed his mind on the issue of whether individuals can purchase private health insurance — an idea he was resistant to during his presidential campaign.

“This is an area where people have made compelling arguments to me, that if we want to have system that drives down cost for everyone, we have to have healthy people not opt out of the system,” Obama told ABC.

Apparently, that does not include healthy union members. Under a proposal by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), union members and their families would be exempt from paying into the new system via taxes on their union health benefits, or any other way.

A rational person is, at this point, is probably asking his/herself what exactly is so wrong with the current healthcare system that a complete overhaul is required?

Is it cost?

No, because there are other simpler and much more direct ways to start controlling costs. At the top of the list is tort reform, which if implemented properly, would drastically reduce the cost of malpractice/liability insurance all across the healthcare industry, thereby driving down healthcare costs for all.

Is it because our president really wants what’s best for me and my family?

Don’t make me laugh.  Barack Obama has demonstrated - not necessarily through his words, but absolutely through his actions - that he couldn’t care less about non-union, non-minority working Americans beyond that we’re a source of funding for his ’social justice’ programs.

This is about amassing power. Period. This is about expanding the welfare class - and make no mistake, universal healthcare paid for by the producers in our society will be the biggest expansion of the welfare class ever - and bringing about the final destruction of a free market economy, individual liberties and individual freedom. Yes, I know it sounds extreme, but just look at what’s happened to our country in only four short months.

Every last one of Obama’s past associates -  from the Wrights to the Ayers’ to the Dorns to his Alinsky-steeped ideology, to the corrupt Chicago political machine that spawned him  - all these have shaped and influenced who he is, and are manifesting themselves in his attack on the country he now leads. Obama is a radical, and the sooner the country comes to terms with this fact, the sooner we can shut his agenda down once and for all.

It is the Cloward-Piven strategy, all the way. There is simply no other rational explanation on God’s green earth for what he is doing.

God help us all.

-Cnation

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Update: Both Michelle Malkin and hotair.com have open threads on this evening’s Barack Obama healthcare infomercial on ABC