Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) admits goal is to eliminate private health insurance

Town Hall protesters have claimed the Democrats secret goal with health care reform is to eliminate private insurance. This has been denied by President Obama, but he has made mixed statements. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) lets the "cat out of the bag." The key moment is at 5:15. Another good moment comes at 7:15.

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From Hot Air:

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) returned to the ObamaCare battle on MS-NBC’s Morning Joe today, preaching the public-plan gospel just as he did yesterday on CNBC. However, this time, Joe Scarborough goaded Weiner into a little more honesty than he’s offered on the effort to “reform” health care. Declaring that “health care is not a commodity,” Weiner says his aim is to eliminate all private insurance — which is why he will not yield on the public-plan option:

S: It sounds like you’re saying you think there is no need for us to have private insurance in health care.

W: I’ve asked you three times. What is their value? What are they bringing to the deal?

S: Again… I’m astounded by your question. It sounds like you’re suggesting that there’s no need to have a country that’s run on free market principles.

W: Time out. Let’s focus on one thing at a time. This isn’t a commodity, Joe. Health care isn’t a commodity.

S: You’re saying that health care is different than everything else.

W: Health care is not a commodity.

S: But you are making the conservatives’ point. You are making the point of the people at the town hall meetings who say this is Barack Obama’s opportunity to get rid of private health care and turn it completely over to the government. I’m sitting here stunned, saying Oh My God, you’re making the point of the health care protesters.

W: If Barack Obama doesn’t want to do it, I want to do it.

Obama's Plan to Eliminate Private Health Insurance

President Obama and Democrats in Congress have spoken in favor of a single-payer health insurance system. They deny that is their goal with the current health care reform legislation. However, the current bills in Congress would eventually force everyone into a "public option plan." How would that occur? First, they make if advantageous for private companies to get out of the health insurance business. Second, they plan rules that will likely bankrupt private health insurers.

According to the New York Times, President Obama is planning an "August offensive against the insurance industry." It is "a campaign of increasingly harsh rhetoric against the insurance industry" that is "intended to drive home the message that revamping the health care system will protect consumers by ending unpopular insurance industry practices, like refusing patients with pre-existing conditions."

That part about pre-existing conditions gives the game away. Health insurance companies refuse to cover pre-existing conditions for the same reason that you can't insure your automobile after you crash it. Insurance is a form of financing for the unexpected and unpredictable. It is not a mechanism to force somebody else to pick up the tab for expenses you have already incurred.

Do the Democrats even understand what insurance is? Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum muses that "Health insurance is a weird industry…. They don't do research, they don't perform surgeries, they don't change bedpans, and they don't make diagnoses. They're just middlemen. All they do is pay the bills…. But for some reason we're supposed to care about whether they continue to exist or not."

If people could insure their automobiles after they crashed them, wouldn't that bankrupt auto insurance companies? Of course it would. The same thing is true for health insurance companies. The public option plan won't have to worry about bankruptcy. Your taxes will be raised to support it.