John Boehner on Healthcare Reform: The Public Option will be the Only Option in Five Years

The president likes to claim that the “public option” health insurance program is just on option. He claims that if you like the health insurance that you have you will be able to keep it, but that may not be true according to House minority leader John Boehner.

We already know that the government run healthcare option will put the private insurance companies out of business eventually leaving only the government option, the debate is over on that issue, it is settled science to borrow a term from Al Gore, but let us just pretend for a minute that private plans will not be run out of business by the government run option.

After five years all private insurance companies (which we are still pretending will be in business) will be purposely eliminated by the government themselves. Here is what John Boehner had to say on this issue:

in their bill it says that after five years, you can’t go out and buy a health insurance policy on your own

After five years you will not be able to purchase your own healthcare. So that means that in five years those people who are just coming of age and entering the workforce, who will be purchasing healthcare for the first time will not be able to purchase their own policy. Where will they get their healthcare? From the government, of course.

You have to go to one of their government exchanges to buy a plan that was designed by the government,” he added. “So it’s pretty clear that we’re going to have a big government-run system that will eventually drive out the private sector plans we have today

And after the five year mark a big, bloated federal bureaucracy is going to decide whether people who are still on private insurance plans have what they deem to be adequate plans. The government deciding which plan is best for you, not giving you the choice to decide what is best for you.

After five years every employer-sponsored health care benefits have to be approved by the Department of Labor and the new Health Choices Czar to make sure that it meets federal standards

What does all of this mean?

So it’s pretty clear the government is going to design the health insurance policies that are going to be out there,” Boehner reiterated

Do not be fooled by Barack Obama’s false claims that you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. Do not be fooled by the notion that the “public option” government run plan will not choke out the private sector insurance plans. But do not take my word for it, take the word of someone that has a little inside information, Barney Frank. Just watch the video below and you will see him admit that the public option will lead to SINGLE PAYER health insurance, in other words government run healthcare. He admits that the public option is the best way to get to single payer healthcare in the end. They are playing us for fools.