More Stealth

Stealth seems to be the word of the week. I mentioned it yesterday and today Michael Barone uses it to describe how President Obama and friends are trying to move the country to a single-payer system for health care even as they promise us that people will be able to keep their current health care if they want to. Well sure, President Obama isn't going to directly take your private health insurance away, he's just going to drive the insurers out of business. Barone notes:

One video is worth a thousand words (or, as in this column, about 730). The video in question, put together by a group called Verum Serum, shows public statements by three advocates of single-payer (government monopoly) health insurance explaining that a health care bill with a "government option" would move America toward a single-payer government health care system. You may not have heard of the first two, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and professor Jacob Hacker. But you have heard of the third, President Barack Obama.

Here's the video he is talking about:

Perhaps there is a good explanation here and I'm open to hearing it. It seems to me though, that this is exactly the kind of flim-flam that people are so angry about right now. We're fed up with it and it doesn't start and end with health care.