Isn't Obamacare designed to eliminate the private health care providers?

You are so Correct!

Your video post brings up many issues that support the demise of independent health care providers.

Wat is certain to happen:

If the Government offers it's own health care program, it is not required to be profitable, and thus can and will operate at a loss, creating additional debt, leading to higher taxes!

Government health care will compete directly with 'employer' programs and they have admitted that they intend to impose more taxes on both the employer and employee, thus making the private insurance more expensive!

At some point, 'employer health care will become too costly for the employer and they will discontinue their program altogether!

As a result of Government intervention and restrictions, fewer people will choose the medical field and as the population grows, the number of doctors and nurses will diminish!

All this leads to 'Health Care Rationing'!

Rationing leads to a 'health care priority system'!

Do you feel confident in letting a strange government bureaucrat determine if and how you and your family will be cared for!

It's true that health insurers are one of the only groups in the health care industry with an interest in controlling costs (providers obviously want them to pay more and patients are usually divorced from the cost of health care and so don't have a lot of interest in lowering costs). It's also true that the main driver of health care costs in the US is not the insurance companies. However, they do make health care more expensive. In the US our health insurance is provided mainly by private for profit companies which compete with one another. This competition leads them to have much greater overhead than government provided insurance plans either in this country or other countries do. Insurers spend an awful lot of money to do things like weed out bad health risks, attract new subscribers, design fancy new health care plans to offer consumers etc. Most of these costs are either greatly reduced, or even eliminated, under government run insurers, thus leading to lower overall health care spending.

Don't you find it the least bit strange that the people who said they didn't have the time to read it are the same people who are trying to shove all these horror stories down our throats? They never read it but they're drawing conclusions based on the occasional stories from other countries. Maybe if they weren't so busy looking for all these stories, they would have had the time to read the plan they're crapping all over.

On a different subject, If Fox news is so fair and balanced, then why don't they ever seem to find insurance company horror stories? They seem to find plenty of canadian or European horror stories, why not the ones happening in their own back yard?

Yes. But it's also about euthanasia, the power to determine who lives or dies in America. Hitler and Stalin would have loved to have had a means such as this for dispatching the millions they killed—it would have made their job much easier, and probably given them the ability to kill many more than they did. THIS BILL IS THAT SINISTER. This is not a joke—this is actually the nature of what is being proposed in the National Health Care legislation, and it is the obvious reason why the Obama Administration wanted to ram it through Congress before anyone got a chance to read it.

For weeks the Right has been touting the credibility of the Congressional Budget Office well the CBO has reported that the government option will not eliminate private health care companies.

If you ask him, he will tell you that it will not eliminate private providers.

But, in reality thatis the only thing it is going to do.

A private provider will not have many takers if there is a so-called cheaper option out there.

Unfortunately too many people think with their short term wallets as opposed to their long-term well being.

It is just sad that the Kool-Aid drinkers are just too brainwashed or should I say too unintelligent to realize that the socialization of ANYthing is the worst way to govern or to succeed.

Does that include his own care too yea?

"Eliminate private care"

As long as we've got rich people who want the very best, there'll be a private option.

It's just like public and private schooling tbh. We've still got private schools, despite their high costs.

Yes, it is. It is designed to make the entire population of America dependent on the government for their well being. It's very scary.

No. Even countries with UHC (which this is not) still have a private insurance industry.

No just to create competition, but whatever happens the neocons will never change their mind on health care as they are the lobbyists puppets.