By Michelle Levi,CBS News
Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said President Obama is "not willing to accept"that a so-called public option "is not going to be in the final package"of health-care legislation on "Face the Nation"Sunday.
"He continues to believe it’s a good idea,"Axelrod told CBS News Chief Washington correspondent and "Face the Nation"anchor Bob Schieffer about a government-funded alternative to private health insurance. "He continues to advocate it,and I’m not willing to accept that it’s not going to be in the final package."
Axelrod said the president "believes that it will add an element of competition where there is none in some places in this country where there’s a monopolistic situation with insurance companies."
Obama doesn't want the private carriers to have interstate competition. He doesn't want them to have fair competition with his "public option."HR 3200 is designed to drive the private carriers out of business. Interstate competition would make insurance more affordable. Obama doesn''t want anything like that to compete with his public option. Repubs want interstate competition while Dems who support Obamacare do not.
I think that by now everyone realizes that Gov competing with Tax-paying Ins. Companies would result in higher costs for drug prescriptions,to make up for lost tax revenues;and help Obama-Democrat campaign financing from big drug lobbyists.
But just as oil and gas production would ruin carbon credits for those dual citizens who fund Democrats;Democrats also have Czars already connecting big labor with amnesty/immigration,via healthcare…
Is it any wonder why the only foreign policy that Democrats avoid,is that which will keep American safe…(2010 may be the only time left in history to vote this OUT!)