Obamacare’s “Pro-Choice” Agenda
During a campaign event yesterday in New Hampshire, the President made some interesting remarks about choice in health care. Here’s what he said:
I also believe women should make their own health care decisions. (Applause.) I know you’ve got — and it’s not just Washington that sometimes deals with this issue. You’ve got a state legislature up here that sometimes acts like it knows better than women when it comes to women’s own health care decisions. My opponent has got the same approach….Do you think, like, your boss, or your insurance company, or some politician in Concord or Washington should get control of your health care choices?…The health care law we passed puts those choices in your hands where they belong.
Some may find the President’s comments slightly ironic – because Obamacare actually takes choices away from individuals and gives them to politicians and bureaucrats. Under Obamacare’s unprecedented mandate, individuals will have to purchase a “bureaucrat-approved” health insurance policy – or be subjected to billions of dollars in new taxes that will hit the middle class hard. And thanks to Obamacare, unelected bureaucrats in the District of Columbia have proposed outlawing the private market for health insurance entirely – forcing all individuals to go to a government-run Exchange to purchase coverage.
So to bring it all back to where we started, yes, under Obamacare, you can choose any type of health insurance you like – as long as the President and unelected bureaucrats in Washington approve.