Senate Cmte Kills Public Option…But Will it Rise Again?

Newsmax reports the Senate Finance Committee voted 15-8 today to kill the “public option” in health care “reform.”

That’s good news…for the moment.  We don’t need further government takeovers of the private sector in America, and we don’t need more waste of the taxpayer’s money.

However, you Tea Partiers and other patriotic Americans: don’t go celebrating yet.

You should know as well as I do that socialist proposals are just like movie vampires and slashers in hockey masks named Jason: somehow they manage to keep coming back from the dead to menace people.

The so-called “public option” could come back in subsequent committee action, or on the Senate floor, or if (God forbid) it passes the Senate, it could come back during reconciliation with a House version.

And even without the public option, socialists in congress still hope to create a foundation upon which to go for the public option (0r more) at a later date.  As Philip Klein at the American Spectator points out, Baucus admitted, “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” signifying it’s better to make a little progress than no progress at all–a truth conservatives have failed to embrace in our own efforts to return our country to its limited government roots, and have failed to take into account when we neglect to stop liberals from making even small gains.

If the socialists in congress truly want competition as they want us to believe, then they can get off the backs of the health care and insurance industry.  They can quit regulating it into inefficiency as they’ve done for years, and they can remove restrictions against insurance purchases across state lines.  They can get away from this World War II-era system that ties health insurance to your employer and return America to a fully free-market model.

If they really want to improve things, that is…

Either way, the American people will continue to stand ready to throw much-needed cold water on any socialist moves in health care as we have during the August recess and beyond.

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