Sen. Feingold Defends Public Plan, Admits Ultimate Goal is Single-Payer
Morgen on June 18, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) spoke from the Senate floor today, in strong support of the public plan. According to Sen. Feingold, the public plan is the “most important element” of any reform legislation. Watch:
In case there remains any doubt as to why the public plan is so critically important to the liberal Democrats driving the health reform agenda, let’s wind the clock back to May 12 of this year and listen to what Sen. Feingold had to say in an interview with the liberal media group Democracy Now!:
…I believe the goal here is to create whatever legislation we have in a way that could be developed into something like a single-payer system.
In the past week the President of the U.S. and his Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have both publicly denied that the public plan is intended in any way to be a trojan or stalking horse for a single-payer system. The President went so far as to claim that anyone who says this is lying. Well Mr. President, was Russ Feingold lying about this? Was Kathleen Sebelius lying about this? Was Rep. Jan Schakowsky lying about this?
You know, if the stakes weren’t so critically important I’d probably just chalk this up as typical spin-making on the part of politicians. But healthcare represents something like 20% of our economy and we are literally talking about an issue of life and death. For our children and grandchildren…and perhaps more importantly our parents and grandparents. Because it is the elderly that will suffer the most under the rationing that will inevitably result when the financial reckoning comes. I am not willing to just sit back and watch this happen as an innocent bystander. These people are outright lying to us about their real intentions. And I am going to keep calling them on it until the public plan goes down in the defeat it so rightly deserves!
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June 25, 2009 @ 11:16 amThe whole “single payer” issue of course is myth!!!
Or so we’re told by the “Denialism” blog over at Science Blogs via Mark Hoofnagle, and dozens of other left-of-center outlets who’re OUTRAGED–just OUTRAGED–that some cretins like us on the Right would deign to accuse the new administration and Congress of wiggling something into law that emulates “socialized medicine”.
Enough of the “name-calling”, so they said.
And yet somehow the TRUE TRUTH comes out in the wash.
Once again, VS is one of the few sites to actually jump on stories and pull the full monty out of them.
Like my poor mama used to say, like a duck on a junebug.
Good work.
Single Payer it is. And always was.
June 29, 2009 @ 6:52 pm[...] is a bait-and-switch that will lead eventually to single-payer. Secretary Sebelius, Senator Feingold, and others have suggested that over time private health insurance should be supplanted [...]
July 7, 2009 @ 2:25 pmThese Democrats are all criminals and will be voted out soon.
14% approval rating!
August 2, 2009 @ 7:34 pmAs misguided as Feingold is, it will be nothing short of a miracle to vote this liberal of a person out of office in Wisconsin.
August 9, 2009 @ 12:50 pmApparently most people in Wisconsin are extremely wealthy and can afford to pay for ObamaCare…
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December 23, 2009 @ 8:06 am[...] As Sen. Russ Feingold said back in the summer (and repeated again two weeks back), …I believe the goal here is to create whatever legislation we have in a way that could be developed into something like a single-payer system. [...]
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