Fort Hood Soldiers Murdered By Political Correctness

It is very interesting to me that when the story of the Fort Hood massacre hit the major news outlets, it seemed that the primary goal of the mainstream media was to portray that the 13 dead and 30 wounded were victims of a poor guy who had a psychological break-down. We were told over and over that this incident had nothing to do with terrorism or radical Muslim beliefs.

Now we learn that coincidently he attended the very controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Virginia (2001) at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists. The preacher at that time was Anwar al-Awlaki who has been accused of supporting attacks on British soldiers and encouraging terrorist organizations.

Col. Terry Lee, who worked with the killer, said Major Hasan had said, “Muslims shouldn’t be fighting Muslims.” Back in June, when a Muslim convert assassinated a U.S. soldier at a recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas, Col. Lee said that Major Hasan seemed happy about the event and that he was confronted by other officers.

One psychiatrist recalled a lecture Hasan gave when he was a medical resident at Walter Reed. “It freaked them out.” These lectures are supposed to focus on a particular disease or disorder and recent research or treatment options. Instead, Hasan reportedly harangued the doctors and staff about what the Quran taught about non-believers going to hell, being scalded, beheaded, etc.

The evidence certainly indicates that Major Hasan was committed to radical Islam and growing increasingly hostile to the American military. People were increasingly aware of his ideology and yet he was not discharged from the military.

This was not a sudden psychological break-down. Hasan’s actions prior to Thursday demonstrate that he had thought this action through and made plans. Last Thursday, Major Hasan drove on to the base, smuggling with him two guns, a semi-automatic fn 5.7 millimetre known as a “cop killer”, and a revolver. He bought the fn 5.7 in August from the Guns Galore store in Killeen, across the street from the mosque.

Witnesses say he shouted “Allahu Akbar” — Allah is great! — before opening fire in the crowded building where troops were waiting to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, both wars that Hasan angrily opposed. “Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor,” he reportedly said earlier this year, referring to the U.S. — the country he swore to protect.

The politically correct mindset continues to ignore the nature of the enemy we are facing in radical Islam. It has infected and hindered the conduct of our military and intelligence agencies. If Major Hasan had not been protected as a Muslim by political correctness, he would already have been discharged from the military and this tragic event would never have taken place. Political correctness is self-deceiving and it is painfully obvious that our military leaders have been pressured to enforce political correctness to a greater degree than sound military procedures and discipline.

But, what should we expect? Common sense has been expelled from the halls of congress.

Apocalypse Fever

In the words of Gary DeMar:

“Charisma magazine provides news, analysis, prophetic commentary and teachings for charismatic and Pentecostal Christians.” Lee Grady, who came out of the Maranatha movement of the 1980s, is its editor. Since I don’t follow what goes on among charismatics, I can’t comment on all the diversity of opinion that’s in the movement, and there is a lot of it. . . .

Troy Anderson’s “Last Days Fever” in the October issue of Charisma [is] a good attempt at sorting out various views on the subject of the last days. Instead of promoting speculation regarding the last days, Anderson presents several opinions, even including preterism: “Peter Wagner, president of Global Harvest Ministries, is an adherent of partial preterism, believing most end-times prophecies were fulfilled with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.” Wagner is the author of Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change the World published by Chosen Book in 2008. . . .

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Oregon Refuses To Give Chemotherapy, But Offers Assisted Suicide Instead

It doesn’t take much for assisted suicide to go from a supposedly humane option to a cost-saving device, especially when the state is paying for the medical care. One patient in Oregon got a letter that made this all too clear. The same letter that rejected her request for life-extending chemotherapy, offered her “physician-aid-in-dying” instead. In other words, Oregon would rather see her die than try to give her a longer life.

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Not Evil – Just Wrong

Not Evil Just Wrong is the film that reveals the true human cost of Global Warming hysteria. It shows how Global Warming alarmism and the tax increases that go along with it are going to increase costs for working families during one of the worst recessions in living memory.

Al Gore and his allies want to ban fossil fuels in the developed world. This would devastate the American economy and drive jobs to India and China.

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Environmental Eschatology

Quoting Daniel Greenfield:

Environmentalist eschatology may be short on theology, but it’s long on nightmarish apocalyptic visions of eco-disasters with technology taking the place of vice, industry replacing sodomy, and excessive use of water and power taking the place of debauchery. After God had been replaced with the one-two combination of the Big Bang and Evolution, environmentalism developed a godless theology of sin and damnation, apocalypse and salvation preached by eco-televangelists like Al Gore soliciting your money to help stop the plastic devil and his CFC archdemons from destroying the earth.

Of course a Marxist coined theology was bound to focus on resource consumption and wealth, wealth and resources being the sin and good works of Marxism. And like its Marxist godfather, environmentalism is perpetually obsessed with what you have, how much of it you have, how much of it you use, and what you can do to make up for it all. Which most people would consider rude and annoying– unless you frighten them with visions of the environmental apocalypse devouring all of mankind’s works, because too many people flushed their toilets once too often and used plastic instead of paper.

The power of eco-nightmares is leveraged to frighten and intimidate people into surrendering power over their lives and pumping untold billions into a variety of schemes to stop a crisis that doesn’t actually exist.

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The New Progressive Fascism And Our Children

Sadly Similar To The Old Fascism

Progressive Fascism Also Manipulates The Minds Of Children

Indoctrination of children at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington Township, NJ.

“Barack Hussein Obama

He said Red, Yellow, Black or White

All are equal in his sight

Mmm, mmm, mm!”

This seems to have a familiar sound to it!

Cap-And-Trade-And-Healthcare

From the pen of David A Ridenour:

If you worry about what Congress could do in its health care legislation, you should be terrified by the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, which could cost millions of Americans their health insurance.

Nearly 15 million Americans are now looking for work, bringing the official unemployment rate to 9.7% – the highest in 26 years. If the Senate passes Waxman-Markey, that rate will go much higher. . . .

The Heritage Foundation provides a . . . comprehensive estimate, projecting a family of four would pay an additional $4,609 per year by 2035. Annual job losses would average 1.15 million between 2012 and 2030, with job losses rising to nearly 2.5 million in 2035.

Higher unemployment rates mean more uninsured. In 2007, employers provided health insurance for 63 percent of Americans under age 65 and paid for nearly 90 percent of all private health insurance policies.

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The Tea Party Racism I Saw

Lloyd Marcus

In the words of Lloyd Marcus:

I traveled on the Tea Party Express tour bus as a singer/songwriter, entertainer and spokesperson — 16 states, 34 rallies in two weeks. I experienced vicious racial verbal attacks, not from the Tea Party protesters. The racial hate expressed against me all came from the left, people who support President Obama’s radial socialist agenda.

Unfortunately, my deleted email box is littered with numerous messages expressing the following, “You are the dumbest self hating f****** n***** I have ever seen!” These racists are outraged by my opening lines I boldly proclaimed at each rally. “Hello my fellow patriots! I am NOT an African-American! I am Lloyd Marcus, AMERICAN!” At every rally, my proclamation inspired great applause and cheers of joy and approval from the audiences. After each rally many came to me with tears in their eyes. They said, “I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you said. I am Irish (or Italian, or Asian) American. And yet, I would never hyphenate. I feel hyphening divides us. While it is fine to honor one’s origin, let’s all be American first.”

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I Want To Live!

This is from an Italian movie with English subtitles of Ayn Rand’s autobiographical novel “We the Living”. It is based on Ms Rand’s own experiences in Soviet Russia as a young girl. Below are 2 scenes about the Soviet health care system. These movie clips sound a timely warning concerning state controlled health care.

Christian Pro-Life Activist Assassinated For His Beliefs

Hundreds of people gathered in front of Owosso High School Sunday for a vigil in response to the shooting death of James Pouillon, 63, a long-time and well-known local pro-life activist.

“Not only did my dad die for these babies, he met them in heaven,” said Pouillon’s daughter, 26-year-old Mary Jo Pouillon, according to The Associated Press.

Pouillon was shot and killed Friday morning. Police have said they believe the suspect, Harlan Drake, 33, targeted Pouillon because of his vocal anti-abortion demonstrations.

“I do think he died for the cause of Right to Life,” said Monica Migliorino, of South Lyon, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, the organizer of Sunday’s vigil. “Because of his Christian faith, he stood up and died for the cause of life and for his faith.”

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The Truth About Nationalized Health Care

Gary Bauer of American Values responded to the President’s Wednesday night health care speech before the American people and a joint session of Congress by pointing out a few distortions:

Obama’s claim: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future — period.”

The Truth: Not even one version of the legislation is deficit neutral. The House version, according to the Congressional Budget Office, adds $220 billion to the deficit over the next decade. The Senate bill is changing by the hour, so it is harder to estimate costs, but common sense tells you it is nearly impossible to cover 30 million more people, not cut any services and do it all without more deficit spending.

Obama’s claim: “Don’t pay attention to those scary stories about how your benefits will be cut… That will never happen on my watch.”

The Truth: His plan proposes $500 billion in “savings” in Medicare by cutting “waste, fraud and abuse.” This is a sleight of hand as old as Washington, D.C., and it is one reason why our deficit is out of control. There is no budget line for “waste, fraud and abuse.” If there are $500 billion that can be saved, prove it now. Cut that “waste, fraud and abuse” now, and save the money now!

Obama’s claim: “…the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”

The Reality: Is there an American alive who doesn’t know the fiasco of our immigration policies? Countless benefits go to illegal immigrants for one simple reason: There are no strong verification systems to prevent it. Illegals can’t vote, but we know some are voting because liberals oppose photo IDs and proof of citizenship on Election Day. Conservatives in Congress have repeatedly tried to add citizenship verification provisions to the socialized medicine bill, and liberal politicians have voted them down every time. Voting down citizenship verification is how the Left ensures that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and groups like La Raza support the legislation.

A recent Rasmussen poll found that 83% of Americans say people should be required to prove their citizenship before receiving government healthcare benefits. But the Congressional Research Service admits that there is no verification mechanism in the bill. No wonder Rep. Joe Wilson yelled, “You lie!” at this point in the speech. And don’t forget: Obama intends to provide an amnesty to illegals anyway, making them eligible for all federal programs.

Perhaps President Obama should call Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Sarah Palin and apologize for calling them liars.

Obama’s claim: “…under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions…”

The Facts: Every attempt by pro-life congressmen to add specific language ensuring that your tax dollars won’t be used to subsidize abortions has been defeated by pro-abortion liberals in committee. The legislation requires that everyone receiving a federal subsidy (your tax money) under the proposed law be able to buy insurance that covers abortion. Even the Associated Press and Time Magazine admit that.

By the way, did you notice that when President Obama said it wouldn’t cover abortion there were no cries of outrage from the dozens of pro-abortion extremists in Congress? They know the fix is in and that abortion coverage will be included.

Obama’s claim: Last night, Obama told Americans who already have insurance that they have nothing to worry about. He said: “Let me repeat this: nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have.”

But this statement is different from what he has said in previous speeches on healthcare. Previously, he claimed: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.”

Details are important. Why did Obama go from saying “you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period” to “nothing in our plan requires you to change what you have”? The answer is simple. Most Americans get their health insurance from their employer and they generally like it. But once a government-run health insurance company (the public option) is established, many businesses, no one knows how many, will opt to pay a fine and stop providing coverage if the government is going to assume that responsibility. Millions of Americans will lose the coverage they have and like, even though the legislation doesn’t “require” it. But the legislation just makes that outcome very predictable.

Obama’s claim: “Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together…”

The Reality: Conservatives have introduced 40 pieces of legislation to reform healthcare. None have been let out of committee by the liberal majority. In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t included Republicans in negotiations for months. Obama has “locked” the White House doors since April – not inviting the congressional minority even once since then to negotiate. When Obama says he wants bi-partisanship, he means conservatives have to embrace his Big Government, high cost, deficit-inducing ideas.

I could write a dozen pages, but you get my drift. One more observation to close: President Obama expressed the same disdain for dissent and energetic debate that is quickly becoming a leftwing theme. He referred to the lively debate this summer at the grassroots as a “spectacle” and “bickering,” and added, “The time for games has passed.”

This is no game. Your freedom is at stake. If this bill passes, Congress will be creating another huge entitlement program. Big Government will be taking on an even bigger responsibility for your welfare and with that a greater demand on your income and standard of living. . . .

This is your country too! Fight for it. Stand with us as we defend our American values!

A Recycled Health Care Speech

From the David Horowitz Freedom Center:

The president’s health care speech last night consisted of discredited canards bookended by emotional manipulation. Between his distortions, token gestures for opponents, and lengthy bouts of tongue-lashing, Barack Obama signaled he will continue pushing forward toward socialized medicine. However, it seems likely he will move incrementally through a final bill that will nationalize health care a year after the next presidential election. . . .

The bulk of his speech consisted of recycled falsehoods long since dismissed. To note the highlights, one can begin with the moment that caught everyone’s attention: Obama’s denial that “our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. . . .

Obama did lie. The Congressional Research Service found, “Under H.R. 3200, a ‘Health Insurance Exchange’ would begin operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public option…H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on non-citizens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange.” The Democrats’ plan contains no requirement that patients verify citizenship, just as the National Council of La Raza requested this summer. . . .

More egregious is his promise that nationalized health care would not result in, well, nationalized health care. ”Let me be clear,” the phrase he characteristically utters while muddying the waters. “It [the “not-for-profit public option”] would only be an option for those who don’t have insurance. No one would be forced to choose it, and it would not impact those of you who already have insurance.” A seismic change in the insurance landscape will affect everyone with insurance, and everyone who pays taxes. The Congressional Budget Office found at least 3 million Americans will move from employer-provided insurance to the public “option” by 2016, because their employers will drop their coverage.

Obama vowed, “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future.” The Lewin Group reported the House health bill would run a $39 billion deficit in its first decade, rising to more than $1.1 trillion in its second. . . .

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Big Government And The Loss Of Freedom

Thomas Sowell

Quoting economist Thomas Sowell:

“The serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent us from having time to stop and think about it. What we also should stop to think about is the mindset behind this legislation, which is very consistent with the mindset behind other policies of this administration, whether the particular issue is bailing out General Motors, telling banks who to lend to or appointing ‘czars’ to tell all sorts of people in many walks of life what they can and cannot do. The idea that government officials can play God from Washington is not a new idea, but it is an idea that is being pushed with new audacity. What they are trying to do is to create an America very unlike the America that has existed for centuries — the America that people have been attracted to by the millions from every part of the world, the America that many generations of Americans have fought and died for. … The thing most associated with America — freedom — is precisely what must be destroyed if this is to be turned into a fundamentally different country to suit Obama’s vision of the country and of himself. But do not expect a savvy politician like Barack Obama to express what he is doing in terms of limiting our freedom. He may not even think of it in those terms. He may think of it in terms of promoting ’social justice’ or making better decisions than ordinary people are capable of making for themselves, whether about medical care or housing or many other things. Throughout history, egalitarians have been among the most arrogant people.”

Erasing 9/11 From The Public Consciousness

Written by Matthew Vadum:

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.

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Why The US Recession Continues

Mark Steyn

Quoting columnist Mark Steyn:

“Meanwhile, in Brazil, India, China, Japan and much of Continental Europe the recession has ended. In the second quarter this year, both the French and German economies grew by 0.3 percent, while the U.S. economy shrank by 1 percent. How can that be? Unlike America, France and Germany had no government stimulus worth speaking of, the Germans declining to go the Obama route on the quaint grounds that they couldn’t afford it. … And yet their recession has gone away. Of the world’s biggest economies, only the U.S., Britain and Italy are still contracting. All three are big stimulators, though Gordon Brown and Silvio Berlusconi can’t compete with Obama’s $800 billion porkapalooza. The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. Actually, when I say ‘to less effect,’ that’s not strictly true: Due to Obama, one of the least-indebted developed nations is now one of the most indebted — and getting ever more so. We’ve become the third most debt-ridden country, after Japan and Italy. According to last month’s IMF report, general government debt as a percentage of GDP will rise from 63 percent in 2007 to 88.8 percent this year and to 99.8 percent of GDP next year. Of course, the president retains his formidable political skills, artfully distracting attention from his stimulus debacle with his health care debacle. But there are diminishing returns to his serial thousand-page, trillion-dollar boondoggles. They may be too long for your representatives to bother reading before passing into law, but, whatever the intricacies of Section 417(a) xii on page 938, people are beginning to spot what all this stuff has in common: He’s spending your future. And by ‘future’ I don’t mean 2070, 2060, 2040, but the day after tomorrow.”

Smearing Those Who Oppose Nationalized Health Care

PBS And Secular Progressive Fundamentalism

Written by Brent Bozell:

The Public Broadcasting Service recently announced it will not allow new religious programming on their taxpayer-subsidized airwaves. The handful of stations that have shown a Catholic Mass or Mormon devotions will be allowed to continue, but the other 300-plus stations have been instructed to avoid any kind of evangelism.

Welcome to Barack Obama’s new world order.

News reports explained that the PBS station services committee insisted on applying a 1985 rule that all PBS shows must be “noncommercial, nonpartisan and nonsectarian.”

To everyone who’s watched a pledge drive or contemplated a toy store stuffed with “Sesame Street” toys, the idea that PBS is following any “noncommercial” policy is absurd.

To everyone who’s watched two minutes of “Bill Moyers Journal,” with its panels unanimously screaming for Bush’s impeachment, or more recently, for a single-payer socialist health-care system, the idea of PBS being devoted to a “nonpartisan” stance is several miles removed from ridiculous.

But the atheists and secularists who want all traces of sectarian “proselytizing” for Jesus banned from PBS do have something to say about PBS public-affairs programming. “Nova” creates a special to shred the authenticity of the Bible, and PBS doesn’t think to assemble a committee to evaluate it. PBS stations air tax-subsidized documentaries celebrating lesbian-feminist choirs, “transgender” riots and a liberal teenager fighting against abstinence education, and nobody inside “public” broadcasting wonders whether they’re guilty of doing the very “proselytizing” they condemn. . . .

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Health Care Lost In Bureaucratic Nightmare

Graduating Class Defies ACLU

The graduating class of 2009 at Florida’s Pace High School expressed their objections to ACLU restrictions on statements of religious faith at their school by rising up en masse at their ceremony and reciting the Lord’s Prayer. The incident has been virtually ignored by media outlets throughout the region.

Nearly 400 graduating seniors stood up at the graduation. Family and friends joined in the recitation, and applauded the students when they were finished. Some students also painted crosses on their graduation caps to make a statement of faith.

The Death Panel

Written by Andrew Klavan:

The people behind the long table do not know what they’ve become. The drug of power has been sugared over in their mouths with a flavoring of righteousness. Someone has to make these decisions, they tell their friends at dinner parties. It’s all very difficult for us. But you can see it in their eyes: It isn’t really difficult at all. It feels good to them to be the ones who decide.

“Well, we have your doctor’s recommendation,” says the chairwoman in a friendly tone. She peers over the top of her glasses as she pages through your file.

You have to clear your throat before you can answer. “He says the operation is my only chance.”

“But not really very much of a chance, is it?” she says sympathetically. Over time, she’s become expert at sounding sympathetic.

“Seventy percent!” you object.

“Seventy percent chance of survival for five years—five years at the outside—and even that only amounts to about 18 months in QALYs: quality-adjusted life years.”

“But without this procedure, I’ll be dead before Christmas.”

You try to keep the anger out of your voice. The last thing you want to do is offend them. But the politicians promised you—they promised everyone—there would never be panels like this. They made fun of anyone who said there would. “What do they think we’re going to do? Pull the plug on grandma?” they chuckled. The media ran news stories calling all rumors of such things “false” or “misleading.” But of course by then the media had become apologists for the state rather than watchdogs for the people.

In fact, the logic of this moment was inevitable. Once government got its fingers on the health-care system, it was only a matter of time before it took it over completely. . . .

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The Plan To Deny Parents’ Rights

Quoting columnist Chuck Norris:

“Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government’s coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It’s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading ‘home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.’ The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills. The bill says that the government agents, ‘well-trained and competent staff,’ would ‘provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains … modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices,’ and ’skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development.’ Are you kidding me?! With whose parental principles and values? … Do we really believe they would contextualize and personalize every form of parenting in their education, or would they merely universally indoctrinate with their own? … One government rebuttal is that this program would be ‘voluntary.’ Is that right? Does that imply that this agency would just sit back passively until some parent needing parenting skills said, ‘I don’t think I’ll call my parents, priest or friends or read a plethora of books, but I’ll go down to the local government offices’? To the contrary, the bill points to specific targeted groups and problems, on Page 840: The state ’shall identify and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such services, especially communities with a high proportion of low-income families.’ … Is all this what you want or expect in a universal health care bill being rushed through Congress?”

Health Care Bill Requires Free Translation Services For Non-English Speaking Patients

Health Care Reform legislation now pending in Congress would require doctors and hospitals to provide interpreters and translation services free of charge to non-English speaking patients.

That will add $billions to the cost of health care and give immigrants even less incentive to learn English.

The “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act,” H.R. 3200, Section 1221 (b) says Medicare health care providers that fail to “substantially provide language services to limited English proficient beneficiaries” face severe fines and penalties.

This is outrageous. Medicare is already bankrupt. Now medical providers also will have to provide free translation services.

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All The President’s Men

America’s Economic Armageddon: 2012?

Nationalized Health Care Surrender Or White House “Bait And Switch”?

Is the White House really retreating on the issue of “Obamacare”?

From The Foundry:

However, as with the various other “compromise” ideas now floating around Congress, what really matters is the contents of the package– not the words on the label.

If by health care “co-op,” Congress means allowing private associations to collectively buy health insurance for their members or operate a health insurance exchange, or allowing people to buy health insurance from a non-profit, member-owned private insurer, then those would be positive, pro-consumer developments.

However, simply slapping the word “cooperative” onto a new “insurer,” but then specifying that the government — not the policyholders — picks the board of directors (as Sen. Schumer wants), or that taxpayers will subsidize it, or that it has to pay doctors and hospitals at Medicare rates, would just be an exercise in trying to disguise a “public plan.”

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