The health-care shell game revealed

We didn't bother to watch the Messiah's monologue last night on his proposed government takeover of health care in this country because of the lack of invited opposing viewpoints, but reading a critique of it today, we came across a few interesting nuggets of analysis that only further support our theories about this little scheme of his.

First, Obama basically publicly admitted that "elites" such as himself and his family would get to play by different and much better rules than the rest of the peasants:

"[Dr. Orrin] Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn't seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care'" (All emphases mine)

despite his stated intention to push "evidence-based medicine" and "best practices" rationing guidelines down the throat of everyone else:

"'There's a whole bunch of care that's being provided that every study, that every bit of evidence that we have indicates may not be making us healthier,' he said.

[host Charlie] Gibson interjected that often patients don't know what will work until they get every test they can.

'Oftentimes we know what makes sense and what doesn't,' the president responded, making a push for evidence-based medicine"

Exactly what we've been predicting. Forget about what the patient wants, and what their doctor may decide is the best course of diagnosis and treatment for that particular individual. Obama and the bureaucrats will determine what makes "sense" for you and your family, with cost as the primary decision factor (but not for his own relatives, presumably including the ones here illegally, of course. They get the Cadillac treatment that will be unavailable to everyone else).

Second, the Messiah also tacitly acknowledged that every single citizen will be forced to purchase health insurance whether or not they wish to obtain it, despite partly winning the Democratic Presidential nomination by mocking Hillary Clinton for proposing the exact same scenario:

"As a candidate, then-Sen. Obama bashed his rival for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, for proposing that Americans be mandated to have health insurance.

'She'd have the government force you to buy health insurance,' he said Feb. 23, 2008. 'I disagree with that approach. I believe that the reason Americans don't have health care isn't because no one's forced them to buy it, it's because no one's made it affordable.'

But now the president is acknowledging that his thinking on the issue has "evolved" and he could support a law mandating that individuals purchase health care coverage, with fines for those who do not."

The point keeps getting belabored around here, but we fail to spot the part of the Constitution that authorizes forcing people at gunpoint to buy something that they aren't interested in owning.

We can state unequivocally that we will never participate in Obama's socialized medicine scheme, no matter the penalties imposed upon us. We won't pay those, either.