Hoisted on his on petard

The President at his health care rally in Minnesota yesterday said "If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out.". Well, Mr. President I'm calling you out. This from a White House press release: “Undocumented immigrants would be able to buy insurance in the non-exchange private market, just as they do today. That market will shrink as the exchange takes hold, but it will still exist and will be subject to reforms such as the bans on pre-existing conditions and caps.” So the White House has admitted that Rep. Wilson was correct that without a mechanism to verify immigration status that illegal immigrants would be covered under the HR 3200. Point to Rep. Wilson. Which means that the President was not telling the truth to the American people during his address.

In answering the question about illegals the Obama administration opened up another can of worms. Remeber the President's claims that if you were happy with your insurance you could keep it? Not true. "That market will shrink as the exchange takes hold, but it will still exist and will be subject to reforms such as the bans on pre-existing conditions and caps.”. That business about the market shrinking means that health care plans that Americans have and are happy with will be forced out of business by the government. Which means that some Americans will lose the health plans they currently enjoy due to a dictat from the government. How many Americans lose their plans depends on the whims of HHS Secretary Sebelius, it could be millions. Rember it's in the democrats political interest to get as many people on the government option as possible. The more people dependent on the government the better their chances of permanent rule.

The White House also neglects to mention their promises to the immigration pressure groups. The White House has promised a vote on Amnesty after health care, cap and trade and card check are passed. So that promise to keep illegals from getting government provided health care is just posturing. It is their postion that by the time national health care goes into effect they will no longer be illegal and therefore elligible for the "public option".

President Obama is aiming for nothing short of an intrusive and omnipotent Federal government on the European model. Once our freedoms are lost they will be impossible to regain. The American dream will die in a hell of confiscatory taxes, an octopus of regulations and dependency.