Still Not Convinced the Public Option is a Trojan Horse for Single-Payer?

Conn Carroll / August 03, 2009

According to Gallup, while Americans favor some government involvement in health care, they do not want a government-run health care system. The left knows this. They understand that Americans would never sign on to health care reform that created a “single-payer” system where the government would run the entire health care sector. So instead, the left is trying to sell a government-run health insurance “option” (the “public option”) that they say would “compete” with private health insurance. But “competition” is not their goal. The “public option” would only serve as a Trojan Horse that the left could then turn into a single-payer health care system over a number of years by slowly forcing private health care managers out of existence. Don’t believe us? Then watch Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) admit as much earlier this year: (more…)