{"id":242,"date":"2009-08-17T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T19:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-08-17T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T19:19:02","slug":"call-it-what-you-want-its-still-government-run-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/242\/call-it-what-you-want-its-still-government-run-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Call it What You Want, It’s Still Government-Run Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

HHS\u00a0Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made headlines<\/a>\u00a0this weekend when she signaled that the Obama Administration is open to dropping the so-called\u00a0“public option” from legislation to overhaul heath care in an effort to\u00a0reach a compromise.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union <\/em>yesterday, Sebelius said the public option “is not an essential element” of President Obama’s plan for\u00a0health care reform.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Almost immediately, the media’s attention turned its focus to “insurance cooperatives,” or co-ops, \u00a0as\u00a0an alternative to a public option.\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t be fooled!<\/p>\n

As Michael Tanner at the CATO Institute points out<\/a>, “Government-run health care is government-run health care no matter what you call it.”\u00a0 Tanner writes:<\/p>\n

The health care \u201cco-op\u201d approach<\/a> now embraced by the Obama administration will still give the federal government control over one-sixth of the U.S. economy, with a government-appointed board, taxpayer funding, and with bureaucrats setting premiums, benefits, and operating rules.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HHS\u00a0Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made headlines\u00a0this weekend when she signaled that the Obama Administration is open to dropping the so-called\u00a0“public option” from legislation to overhaul heath care in an effort to\u00a0reach a compromise.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union yesterday, Sebelius said the public option “is not an essential element” of President Obama’s plan for\u00a0health care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,12,24,42],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cato","tag-health-care","tag-obama","tag-sebelius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}