THE DEMS GO CRAZY – AT 10:46 A.M. ET:   And not for the first time.  Now the Bernie Sanders faction is trying to force on the party a socialist-style plan for a single-payer health system.  In other words, the government will make your health choices for you.  Democrats are falling in line, fearful of offending the Moscow wing of the party's base.  From IBD: 

Health Reform: Democrats are lining up to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders' plan to socialize medicine. But have they actually read what it is they are signing up for?

Sanders touts his "Medicare for all" as the solution to all our nation's health care woes. No more premiums, no more deductibles or copays, no provider networks. The government would pick up all the costs, except for possibly minimal copays for prescription drugs. Private insurance would be effectively outlawed.

A third of Senate Democrats co-sponsored Sanders's bill, and a similar measure in the House has 117 Democratic co-sponsors. Sanders is now the standard-bearer for the party on health reform.

In a New York Times Op-Ed previewing the release of his bill, Sanders claims that it "is not a radical idea."

It's hard to know where to begin to show just how radical Sanders' plan really is.

But let's start with this. There is no industrialized country in the world that has a government-run health care system as vast as the one Sanders proposes.

Not one.

Plenty of other countries "guarantee" health care to their citizens, and pay most of the costs with tax dollars. But none promises first-dollar coverage for all health care, without limits.

Even Sanders' beloved Canadian single-payer system doesn't cover prescription drugs, home care or long-term care, vision or dental.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's very instructive.  The lure here is "free" heatlh care.  Of course, it's not free.   It will require huge tax increases, and the government will dictate the care you get.  Forget about choices.  Forget about fighting to live to an old age.  Only if the government approves, my friend.

This is a vast country.  Sanders is basing his plan on countries with much smaller populations, and countries where individual freedom is not stressed.

I can't imagine the Sanders plan actually becoming law.  But I wouldn't trust anything to chance.  There is a powerful constituency out there whose motto is not, "Give me liberty or give me death," but, rather, "Free stuff!  Free stuff forever!"

September 14, 2017