Frisco Nan's Health Care Bill

Well, Frisco Nan did it. She rammed through a health care bill in the dead of a Saturday night this past weekend.

And only by the slimmest of margins, losing over 70 of her own party's members who are too afraid of voting for this abomination. And rightly so.

When is the last time you saw Congress actually imposing prison terms for citizens who fail to follow government's edicts on a completely personal matter- health care insurance?

Between income tax filing-related penalties for not showing proof of insurance, and further penalties if you remain uninsured, the liberals now in control of the federal government intends to intrude upon your life to a degree to which Republicans never even dreamt. And the latter are usually the ones accused of such intrusion into private lives, due to their general pro-life, anti-abortion stance.

It's also pretty rich to see suspected bribe-taking Democratic Senator Kent Conrad call Nan's bill's inclusion of another underfunded insurance plan a "Ponzi scheme" of which Bernie Madoff would be proud.

Perhaps civics was one of those areas Wonderboy missed in his drug-clouded youth, because he and Nan are both behaving as if it's just a matter of Senate passage and the signed bill will become law.

Anybody recall that trivial matter of the House and Senate conference to reconcile the two vastly different bills?

Even Max Baucus' grotesquely fraudulent bill, with its understatement of benefits and low-balling of costs, looks affordable next to Frisco Nan's porker.

What's worse is that every single Democratic strategist, pundit, spokesperson and leading legislator blatantly lies when they contend:

-Everyone who likes their current health insurance may keep it.
-Few people will move to the government option.

The truth is this. Most Americans are insured via their employer. When those employers see that the government option, with its interest-free startup loan and subsidized expenses, is a cheaper way to cover their employees, most will dump their current, privately-provided group insurance plans for the government option.

Employees don't actually have a choice in keeping "their" health insurance, because it hasn't been "theirs" to keep to begin with. It's provided by an employer who can change it at will.

Of course, if the GOP's recently-submitted health care proposals, including interstate marketing of health insurance and the extension of tax-preferenced health insurance premiums to individuals, as well as businesses, were in place, then these statements would be true.

But those proposals were ignored by the House and Senate Democrats, so the liberals' contentions on these points are simply lies.

Even the CBO is lying by vastly understating proposed health insurance bill costs by grossly underestimating the numbers of companies which will summarily drop private plans and stampede into unrealistically-low priced government plans.

Because of the Senate's need to pass something, then reconcile it with the House, it may not matter that Nan rushed her bill's passage prior to the Veteran's Day break, during which House members can be expected to be excoriated for its passage.

Maybe it is better that voters can be legitimately outraged over the bill's passage, threatening members with their seats rather than simply bluster against its inevitability.

If a reconciled bill returns for passage, those members may indeed quail at voting for it so close to next November's elections.