{"id":19881,"date":"2014-01-08T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19881"},"modified":"2014-01-16T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T22:09:06","slug":"turning-obamacare%e2%80%99s-failures-into-a-mandate-for-single-payer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19881\/turning-obamacare%e2%80%99s-failures-into-a-mandate-for-single-payer\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning ObamaCare\u2019s Failures into a Mandate for Single-Payer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116105\/obamacare-will-lead-single-payer-michael-moore\" target=\"_blank\">Noam Scheiber<\/a> of the <em>New Republic<\/em> defended Obamacare\u2019s failings as a Machiavellian way for liberals to generate public support for even more government control of health care, eventually leading to the creation of a federally-run single-payer system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the law created potentially millions of hard-working Americans who will have some health insurance; just maddeningly insufficient health insurance,\u201d writes Scheiber. \u201cWhat are the chances politicians stand up and take notice when these Americans complain?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fear not fellow liberals, says Scheiber, Obamacare\u2019s disastrous rollout isn\u2019t all bad news. \u201cWhen you look at the big picture, the underlying political logic is clearly toward more generous, more comprehensive insurance, the natural upshot of cataloguing the law\u2019s shortcomings isn\u2019t to give them less insurance\u2026 It\u2019s to give them more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Obamacare can be seen as a two-step process toward a federally-controlled national health system. First, individuals and employees are severed from their current insurance plans. Then, when they see how insufficient are the subsidies in paying for the government\u2019s mandated coverage options, people will demand more money. The end result is having the feds pick up the entire bill as governments do in countries with socialized medicine.<\/p>\n<p>A messy way to get what liberals want? Yes. But it\u2019s worth the cost to pundits like Scheiber if in the end the liberal dream of nationalized health care becomes a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Noam Scheiber of the New Republic defended Obamacare\u2019s failings as a Machiavellian way for liberals to generate public support for even more government control of health care, eventually leading to the creation of a federally-run single-payer system. \u201c\u2026the law created potentially millions of hard-working Americans who will have some health insurance; just maddeningly insufficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3308,1829,4272,35,52],"class_list":["post-19881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-medicine","tag-obamacare","tag-single-payer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19968,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19881\/revisions\/19968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}