On 'Face the Nation,' is Howard Dean in denial about healthcare?

Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) delivered the weekly GOP address, focusing on healthcare reform. In this photo, Price called for an "all of the above" approach to meeting US energy needs.If you heard Howard Dean, former DNC chair and iconic screamer, talk about health insurance on ‘Face the Nation’ (CBS) on Sunday, you’d have to come to the conclusion he’s in denial. “The GOP should give a clearer message on what they will support,” Dean told host Bob Schieffer.

Declaring the GOP is blocking healthcare reform, suggests deception or delusion. Dems have absolute control of the government right now; they’ve had solid control of Congress for almost 3 years. They can do what they want and they have a massive government-media complex backing them up. As proof, the de facto socialist party projects, according to Reuters, a $9 trillion deficit over the next decade.

Dem messaging on healthcare has been completely muddled—it began with the idea of affordability and accessibility for all. But on Sunday, Dean acknowledged taxpayers will subsidize care for those who don’t have it now. And who are we subsidizing? We know from one study the uninsured are about 4 times as likely as the insured to be high school dropouts. They’re almost 4 times as likely to be foreign-born non-citizens. The study also found a percentage of the involuntarily uninsured never worked during the year or worked only part of the year. About 15 percent of the voluntarily insured are self-employed. Our previous column, ‘Meet some of the 45 million without health insurance,’ covered highlights from the study conducted by The Employment Policies Institute.

Once the public realized the makeup of the uninsured group and realized a percentage of that group can afford insurance but opt to do without, the Dem narrative changed.

Now it’s on the basis of faith—I am my brother’s keeper. President Obama quoted lines from a Jewish prayer during a national teleconference with alleged persons of faith and to be fair, we acknowledge he’s relied on God to pitch political ideology before. Speaking to the Democratic National Convention in 2004, after explaining the fact we’re all connected in the “It Takes a Village” mindset, Obama said “It's that fundamental belief — I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper — that makes this country work.”

The president needs to re-read the story of Cain and Abel for an accurate interpretation of the “brother’s keeper” line. Cain asked that question of God who had asked Cain where Abel was. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

God then told Cain Abel’s blood was “crying from the ground” and He put a curse on the world’s first murderer.

We are our brother’s keepers, via rights protected by the US Constitution. What we do apart from that is voluntary because we are a free people. Freedom is what makes this country work.

Dean told Schieffer, “We’re waiting for a signal from the Republicans—right now, they’re just interested in stalling.”

In the weekly Republican Address, Georgia congressman Tom Price said:

“As opposition to the Democrats’ government-run health plan is mounting, the President has said he’d like to stamp out some of the disinformation floating around out there. The problem is the President himself plays fast and loose with the facts. So as someone who’s taken care of patients, I’d like to take a moment to clear up a couple of the President’s worst offenses.

“On the stump, the President regularly tells Americans that ‘if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.’ But if you read the bill, that just isn’t so. For starters, within five years, every health care plan will have to meet a new federal definition for coverage – one that your current plan might not match, even if you like it."

Price added, “What’s more, experts agree that under the House bill, millions of Americans will be forced off their personal, private coverage and shuffled onto the government plan. “

Talking to Bob Schieffer, Dean sang the praises of Medicare, a federal program relying on a captive audience. But the government acknowledges Medicare is going broke and it is riddled with fraud.

In his address, Rep. Price also said, “But perhaps the most striking misinformation the President has put forth is that there are only two options out there for America – that it’s his way or the highway. That it’s either the government running the show – or insurance companies. The truth is there is a third way – a better way, a patient-centered way to reform health care. Rather than allowing insurance companies or the government to call the shots, Republicans want to put patients in charge of their family’s health care. We have plans to increase coverage and lower costs without putting a bureaucrat between you and your doctor. We believe that what’s good for patients is good for American health care.”

Dean and his dogmatic kin are in denial, and it has nothing to do with the GOP.

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Update on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 1:25PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

For a look at a non-delusional Dem confession on single pay, check out the I Hate the Media column,  'Joe Scarborough gets democrat congressman to admit the truth.' At least the congressman is admitting the socialist intent--to have government control healthcare, thereby controlling one sixth of the US economy.