Posted by
PDX Dave on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:56:17 PM
Reality check!
Rewind a few months to the heyday of the left's delusion that they could shove every aspect of their Health Care wish list down the collective throat of Americans. Single payer, forced subscription, government control, swastikas on nurse uniforms...... OK, the last one was a logical result, not a wish.....
Now, fast forward to today. The health insurance industry says they can't support Max Baucus' health bill because it DOES NOT have a key element on the left's wish list: Forced subscription. The reaction of the left SHOULD BE to say, "Right on brother!" and build a campfire around which to sing kum-by-ya with America's Health Insurance Plans, the group which wants to see fascistic orders of compliance.
But the reaction, instead, is anger and accusations that the group is trying to "torpedo" health insurance reform. Huh?
Let's get this straight: America's Health Insurance Plans starts out agreeing with the left on forced subscription. America's Health Insurance Plans does not waiver on that as Democrats drop the requirement for expediency. Now, the left is pretending that THEY NEVER supported forced compliance, and that America's Health Insurance Plans are evil racist thugs trying to make babies die for doing so.
Now, here is what makes me scratch my head in wonderment: Not one mainstream media source will point this obvious fact out. If Republicans did a flip-flop like that, the media would have banner headlines in red ink trumpeting it as proof of incompetence and evil intentions. But such a glaring inconsistency from the left is virtually ignored.