As President Barack Obama has been unable to win over the American voters based on the merits of his healthcare reform plan, he has begun resorting to secrecy and McCarthyist techniques. Actually, let me clarify my comments, as President Obama doesn’t actually have a healthcare reform plan, but Senator Max Baucus does. Yet still the Obama/Baucus alliance continues to trying woe support for their failing healthcare bill.
President Obama himself addressed a joint session of Congress and promised not to cut Medicare benefits. It was a promise he couldn’t keep. And Baucus is moving forward with the healthcare reform package that will eliminate over $120 billion in coverage for Medicare patients and nearly 3 million American Seniors will lose Medicare coverage altogether. That’s not rhetoric, it’s a simple statement of fact. Now, that’s as the bill is currently conceived by Senator Baucus and President Barack Obama, and it’s possible it could change at some point in time. But what’s interesting is these dire assessments aren’t coming from screaming right-wing neoconservatives, they are coming from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which has consistently underestimated the cost of every healthcare bill before Congress since 1965. It’s likely the real damage of ObamaCare could be much, much worse.
But here’s the new wrinkle in the healthcare reform debate. Senator Baucus leaned on President Barack Obama to pressure the new puppet director at CMS, Jonathan Blum, to issue a federal gag order not to discuss any aspect of the healthcare reform bill. Even if it’s written in Senator Baucus’ bill, nobody is allowed to speak of it – unless you are supporting the healthcare reform bill. How did this happen?
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Humana sent a letter to Medicare Advantage beneficiaries stating exactly what is in the healthcare reform bill. Humana provided objective statements of fact and provided its customers with an early warning their benefits might change. So, why is it that President Barack Obama and Senator Max Baucus are afraid of the truth? Why is it that they don’t want the American public to know exactly what is in their little healthcare reform bill? How is this Democratic?
Here’s a thought: why doesn’t Humana CEO Michael B. McCallister openly challenge President Barack Hussein Obama to a public debate? Obama has proclaimed from the Congressional floor that he is open to a civil dialogue, why doesn’t he prove it? President Obama isn’t able to convince Americans of his proposals on merit, so he’s resorting to intimidation and Constitutional abuses.
