Video: Rep. Schakowsky Admits Goal of Healthcare Reform is to Destroy Private Insurance Industry
Morgen on April 27, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I posted earlier on the Democrats’ plan to use a government-provided healthcare option as a backdoor to a single-payer, socialized healthcare system. In support of this claim, I referenced a news article quoting Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) at a healthcare reform rally in Chicago earlier this month.
Well, now you can hear for yourself what Rep. Schakowsky had to say, as video of her speech just became available today. I’ve extracted the relevant clips – watch:
This video makes it crystal clear how important it is for conservatives to fight tooth and nail against the inclusion of a public-plan option in the healthcare reform bill. The future of our healthcare system and the financial security of our nation depends on it.
Exit question: How many jobs are supported by the private health insurance industry?
Update (6/18): We’ve had to update the underlying YouTube clip twice now because of suppression on the part of the liberal activist organization that posted the original full length Schakowsky clip. They cannot suppress this. If need be we will host this video ourselves!
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April 28, 2009 @ 6:52 amIf we want government run health care than visit any VA hospital to get a whiff of what’s in store. It will provide us with DMV style service complete with the effciency of the post office. We’re headed for troubled water.
April 28, 2009 @ 7:27 am[...] horse for single-payer, and that she’s not interested in waging a “principled fight”, as Verum Serum [...]
April 28, 2009 @ 9:36 amThe sky is falling the sky is falling! The insurance companies aren’t going to be able to turn a buck off of human suffering any more! But who will own our congressmen now?
If I believed in god, I would PRAY that we get socialized health care.
April 28, 2009 @ 10:59 amBut the government bureaucrats that replace them are going to work for free? Or is your theory that they’ll simply be more efficient?
I’ll have a post up on this tomorrow, but for now let me just say you’re wrong on both counts.
If I wasn’t a Christian I’d pray that you — and only you — would get your wish. But that would be too cruel to wish on anyone.
April 28, 2009 @ 1:03 pmSusac, how does it feel to be consistently wrong on all the issues? The next time I’m in a VA hospital I’ll take you along for the ride. If you still hold to your viewpoint, we’ll head to the pharmacy and get you some meds.
April 28, 2009 @ 4:51 pmMy wife is from New Zealand – they have national healthcare. When your young its good, except you have to wait weeks to get an appointment. When your old, IT IS RATIONED. Her mom died of cancer waiting 8 weeks for treatment.
This is nationalized healthcare – government controls it. If she were in the US, she would have gone stright to the surgeon to take care of her illness.
If you support this, you have not done your homework. No national healthcare plan has ever been as successful as private plans. Oh yeh, in New Zealand now, they are offering private healthcare due to the massive failures and demand for not only quality care, but immediate care.
May 1, 2009 @ 12:54 pmNationalized Health care should be debated in its entireity. However, we’ll just continue to speak “for” or “against” it without any real dialogue. Take a look at England and Canada and their Nationalized health care systems. Canada folks come to the US to get treatment and folks in England can’t get health care because it’s too expensive. That means RATIONING under any government Nationalized Health Care System or Non-Health Care System. To say it’ll be less expensive is only recognition that health care will be rationed and the government will determine who gets the care. Will you be among those that get health care??
May 5, 2009 @ 12:57 pm[...] week Far Left Rep. Schakowsky (D-IL) was in the news after video was posted where she boasted that a government provided insurance plan would put private insurers out of [...]
May 7, 2009 @ 6:07 amI know someone who’s mother is a cancer survivor, living in Australia. While she was here in CA visiting her daughter this fall and winter, she had a stroke. The medical work-up she received here in our ER was more exhaustive and detailed than all the care she had received in Australia over her lifetime combined. She had to return home about a six weeks ago, and as of last week was still waiting to see her doctor regarding the stroke she had here in February.
I also experience socialized medicine first-hand while living in Germany. I was in a blessed situation where I was able to see any doctor, at any time. However, anyone without title or clout (accompanied with riches) wait weeks or months just to get through the door for basic medical or dental treatment. Sure it costs nothing once you’re through the door, just getting past the threshold is nearly impossible though.
We already have a serious separation of patient treatment in our current health care system here. Depending upon which insurance you carry, HMO or POS/PPO, services and providers vary greatly. I know stories first-hand of people who died because of a certain HMO organization they received services from. The time they spent waiting to jump through the litany of hoops to get correct help, was time they didn’t have as their cancer spread.
Obviously all of the systems have flaws. The paramount issue needs to be patient care and treatment, not running a business.
Seems like an impossible feat.
Keith, I’d like to read about your thoughts and experiences across the pond.
May 9, 2009 @ 8:15 pmCindy,
If you’re interested in writing a longer (and possibly more personal) comparison of treatment in the US vs. Germany, I’d be interested in posting that. You have a unique perspective.
There’s this new blog that might be interested too.
May 9, 2009 @ 11:42 pmCindy – sorry, I posted something under a socialists report card for Obama before reading this. Other than my brother-in-laws case, my experinces are;
it’s a lottery whether you can get a good doctor or not. Where I live now, the General Practitioners (GP) surgery is very good. I think most of the staff there have the patience of a saint, and one can usually be seen within a day. There are bad GP surgery’s – if you live there and can’t move, that’s very unfortunate.
Beyond GP care, it’s also a lottery. I’m blessed never to have needed to be admitted, but on the 2 occasions I’ve needed ER treatment have actually been impressed, once in London and once out here in the country. My wife has been admitted on a number of occasions with a pregnancy condition called hyperemesis, and had one birth in London, one here. Her experience was vastly different, the rural hospital providing a much higher level of care.
My mother has had breast cancer, which was found at NHS provided free of charge screening, and treated on the NHS. She had post operative complications, which she ended up paying for private care to sort out.
It’s very interesting to me that the leader of the Conservative opposition (traditionally the party of NHS cuts) has a very different perspective because of his personal experience.
NHS Dentistry is practically nonexistant, except for children. I pay to see the only dentist who doesn’t bring me out in a cold sweat, back where my parents live.
Overall, I know the NHS employs far too many people in non-frontline positions, it’s too beaurocratic and expensive. The care staff who do work there are, on the whole, extremely good although overworked. I have never had provate healthcare, never felt the need for it, and following Marcus’ experience probably never will. I would give the NHS a C+.
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September 2, 2009 @ 8:59 amIf it is to be an option, how can it be hailed as a program to eliminate the PRIVATE SECTOR?
September 5, 2009 @ 7:35 pmI personally do not want national health care plan.
October 19, 2009 @ 2:35 pmI already have insurance, and I don’t think that the government is going to do a better job; in fact rationing of health will be the ultimate result if the United States has National Health Care Insurance.
I was thinking about the “I’ve got mine” mentality that the left pins onto the right. And I thought, well, if it’s true, it’s at least better than the philosophy of the left: “you’ve got mine,” or “you can’t have.”
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