YOU CAN KEEP YOUR INSURANCE, EXCEPT THAT YOU CAN'T

You didn't really believe that the left would be honest about this, did you?
If you did, I have some other bad news for you. There is no Santa Claus. Yeah. I'm sorry.

From Hot Air:

...as Obama promised, keep your current coverage — as long as it remains available. However, if your employer stops offering health-care benefits, or if you buy it privately and your insurer cancels your plan, you can’t just pick up another private plan. Enrollments will be closed as of the first day the bill becomes law.

That will have the effect of forcing millions of people into the public plan whether they want it or not. Even worse, if insurers get barred from attracting new customers — which this clause outlaws — then they will eventually see their rolls drained, thanks to the natural flow of the market as employers drop plans and skip the expense of offering medical insurance. It won’t take long at all for insurers to exit the market and leave the field for just the public plan, which will automatically get the customers of each individual insurer as they close up shop.

Does this bill outlaw private insurance? Literally, no, but in practical terms, it makes it an endangered species and creates an American single-payer system by default.

To be fair, they have to be deceptive. If they came right out and told people that they were rushing around trying to turn them into slaves of the Marxist State before anyone knew what was up, it wouldn't happen. As it is, we are well on our way and critics are being called "traitors" and "potential terrorists."

Hope I don't get locked up for pointing it out.