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In a previous post about the tax increases included in the Senate healthcare bill I noted that the Democrats were trying to control the amount of compensation insurance companies can pay their executives. I said that I thought this was evidence of a larger plan designed to replace private insurance with government provided insurance:

[The Senate bill] puts a cap on the executive compensation that may be paid to health insurance company employees. The entire bill, of course, signals the beginning of a concerted effort by the left to destroy the insurance industry and replace it with a single payer system. The  slippery slope is very slippery indeed.

Now here comes Peter Orszag, director of the White House’s Office of Managment and Budget, writing for the Washington Post who says (emphasis added):

It’s time to move toward the high-quality, lower-cost health system of the future, and the reforms under discussion in the House and Senate will put us firmly on that path.

[R]eforming the health-care system is not a one-time event but an ongoing process that implements the most recent progress in medical science with the goal of improving care and lowering costs.

The “path” and the “process” Orszag speaks of combine to form the slippery slope I spoke of.

For good or ill – depending on your ideological bent – the healthcare proposals currently on the table are the beginning of a much larger power grab by the federal government at the expense of free enterprise.

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