Yesterday's Wall Street Journal contained an op-ed by John Fund about the hidden victims of health "reform" -- among them, the young and healthy, small business owners, and holders of health savings accounts. I'm not the least bit surprised -- about the young and healthy, at least, I've blogged plenty in the past. But the essay contained one bit of information I didn't know: that Obama's goons are using thuggish tactics to keep other, more obvious victims (pharmaceutical and insurance companies) silent.
I was too young to notice what was going on when HillaryCare was shot down, in part because of the successful "Harry and Louise" ad campaign run by a group of insurance companies, showing in sound-bite snippets how universal health care would replace patient choice with bureaucrats' dictates and how forcing insurers to cover the sick would cost the healthy more.
I also hadn't noticed, perhaps because I usually watch TV with fast-forwarded commercials via DVR, that this time around, there haven't been any such ads attacking ObamaCare. As Fund points out in his essay, that's not an accident: "intense" pressure, "bordering on extortion," has been applied by the Democrats to insurance companies to keep them from airing such ads. Basically, the Democrats have told the insurers: Shut up, or we won't let you have a voice when we put the plan together.
This is a tactic more worthy of Josef Stalin than of the purported leader of the free world. Why is Obama so afraid of Americans hearing the insurers' case? If he had a rational case for the healthcare "reform" he wants, then he would be able to rebut the insurers' assertions. Instead, he's simply having the insurers muzzled -- because he can't rebut them.
Shine a bright light on evil, and its nature is revealed. That's why it likes to hide in the dark. The insurers have been scared into keeping quiet, which means that the rest of us who understand what a monstrosity ObamaCare would be must not be silent.
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