"The Scheme Behind the Obamacare Fraud"
Andrew
McCarthy’s legal analysis of the fraud taking place – before our very eyes – is at National
Review Online. Here are a few extracts, but read the
whole thing and be ready for family conversations while eating turkey:
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Fraud
can be so brazen it takes people’s breath away. But for a prosecutor tasked
with proving a swindle — or what federal law describes
as a “scheme to defraud” — the crucial thing is not so much the fraud.
It is the scheme.
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President
Obama repeatedly and emphatically vowed, “If you like your health-insurance
plan, you can keep your health-insurance plan, period.” . . . Obama’s
promises were systematically deceitful. The president’s audacity is bracing,
and not just because he lies so casually while looking us in the eye. Obama
also insults our intelligence. . . . To be so bold is to say, in effect, “The
public is too ignorant and disengaged to catch me, and the press is too deep
in my pocket to raise alarms.”
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The
point of showing that Obama is carrying out a massive scheme to defraud — one
that certainly would be prosecuted if committed in the private sector — is not
to agitate for a prosecution that is never going to happen. It is to
demonstrate that there is logic to the lies. There is an objective
that the fraud aims to achieve. The scheme is the framework within which the
myriad deceptions are peddled. Once you understand the scheme, once you can
put the lies in a rational context, you understand why fraud was the
president’s only option — and why “If you like your plan, you can keep your
plan” barely scratches the surface of Obamacare’s deceit.
In
2003, when he was an ambitious Illinois state senator from a hyper-statist
district, Obama declared:
I happen to be a proponent of a
single-payer universal health-care program. I see no reason why the United
States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world,
spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot
provide basic health insurance to
everybody. . . . Everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer
health care plan, a universal health care plan. That’s what I’d like to see.
But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately.
That
is the Obamacare scheme.
It
is a Fabian plan to move an unwilling nation, rooted in free enterprise, into
Washington-controlled, fully socialized medicine. As its tentacles spread over
time, the scheme (a) pushes all Americans into government markets (a
metastasizing blend of Medicare, Medicaid, and “exchanges” run by state and
federal agencies); (b) dictates the content of the “private” insurance
product; (c) sets the price; (d) micromanages the patient access, business
practices, and fees of doctors; and (e) rations medical care. Concurrently,
the scheme purposely sows a financing crisis into the system, designed to
explode after Leviathan has so enveloped health care, and so decimated the
private medical sector, that a British- or Canadian-style “free” system —
formerly unthinkable for the United States — becomes the inexorable solution.
Once
you grasp that this is the scheme, the imperative to lull the public with
lies makes sense. Like all swindles, Obamacare cannot work if its targeted
victims figure out the endgame before it is a fait accompli.
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You
couldn’t keep your plan because Obamacare mandates made it impossible for
private insurers to offer it. . . . If your doctor is not part of the network
offered on the plans in your exchange, you will lose your doctor. To keep
costs down, exchanges will limit their
provider networks. Top doctors and hospitals are already
being cut out. Moreover, the onerous regulations,
reporting requirements, and constant threat of fee-slashing are beginning to
drive doctors out of the profession.
Then
there is the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Stanley Kurtz described the
IPAB in all its frightening detail in a 2011 National Review cover
story: “An unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic entity with nearly
limitless power over federal Medicare spending, [it] will have the power to
effectively ration health care through price controls.”
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That’s
the scheme. Or maybe you still believe that if you like your private medical
system, you can keep your private medical system, period.
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