The big-government juggernaut, I mean. And as with any other tyranny, you’ll take it hard and deep — and you’ll like it too, serfs:

Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

OF COURSE they were lying when they insisted they only wanted the Almighty State to “compete” with private insurers rather than doing away with them altogether. Anybody who bought that transparent horseshit at this late date is a damned fool.

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

…What wasn’t known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.
The public option won’t be an option for many, but rather a mandate for buying government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of soft tyranny.

Should be, yeah. But we haven’t borne much resemblance to a truly “free people” in a very long time.

Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn’t be killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major changes in Americans’ lives.

Of course it shouldn’t. It also shouldn’t be running car companies or the financial and banking/mortgage industries. It shouldn’t be seeking draconian restrictions on the people’s right to keep and bear arms. It shouldn’t be seeking to control the energy industry via a dubious, grasping scam of a bill based on junk science and suppression of actual scientific evidence that contradicts the contrived conventional wisdom. It shouldn’t be mandating what kind of toilets we must buy, or what kind of lightbulbs we must use in our homes. It shouldn’t be using a compliant media establishment to disseminate dishonest propaganda. It shouldn’t be telling us how fast we can drive; when, where, and how far we can drive; and what safety equipment we must subject ourselves to when we do. It shouldn’t be usurping the role of the free market by telling car companies what models they must build and sell, and enforcing those arbitrary decisions by demanding unattainable mileage standards among other things. It shouldn’t be mandating a one-size-fits-all minimum wage that destroys entry-level, part-time, and summer jobs. It shouldn’t be handing out bribes to foreign enemies while harassing our friends. It shouldn’t be taxing us to within an inch of bankruptcy and using the tax code to punish anyone who doesn’t toe the big-government line, or threatening states who don’t agree with every boondoggle that comes down the federal pipeline.

And yet, somehow, here we are: living under a clearly Constitutionally-illegitimate, toxic tyranny that controls all these things and much, much more — and making excuses for ourselves for not acknowledging sad, simple facts that are plain as the snouts on our increasingly sheeplike faces.