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WATCH: Krauthammer Says That Within 7 Years, We’ll Have A Nationalized Health Care System

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Appearing on Fox News’ Special Report Thursday, conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer hit the nail on the head as it pertains to the way in which Americans perceive the role of government in the health care industry:

“I think historically speaking we are at the midpoint. We had seven years of Obamacare, a change in expectations. And I would predict that in less than seven years, we will be in a single-payer system. I think that’s the great irony of this.

Obamacare failed at every level. Politically, the Democrats were crushed over six years and four elections, whereas you say, they lost seats in the House, the Senate, the governorships, etc. largely because of Obamacare.

It failed on the ground, as was pointed out earlier. The insurers are in a death spiral. The Obamacare exchanges are collapsing. You’ve had these exchanges, these community exchanges completely disintegrating. But the irony is in the end, I think Obamacare wins the day because it changed expectations.

Look at the terms of the debate. Republicans are not arguing the free market anymore. They have sort of accepted the fact that the electorate sees health care as not just any commodity. It’s not like purchasing a steak or a car. It is something people now have a sense that government ought to guarantee.”

Progressives like Obama are masters at the game of perception manipulation. With the help of a complicit media, progressives have been able to shift the debate regarding healthcare from “free market vs. socialized medicine” to “semi-socialized medicine vs. fully government-run health care.”

With the extraordinary failure of Obamacare, the semi-socialized side of the argument has come undone; it is no longer viable. This leaves us with just one option: government-run health care.

Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro writes: “Obama won and continues to win because he shifted the political ground upon which Republicans now walk. Not one elected Republican has the strength of mind or character or political position to tell the truth about healthcare.”

This is true. Republicans have the option to move the debate back to the ground on which it belongs, but the majority will not. They are either too dim or too terrified. That said, Republicans have no ground on which to argue but that of semi-socialized health care. Arguing in favor of a system that has proven to be a failure – merely offering a tweaked version of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – Republicans will continue to lose the debate.

When the Republican version of Obamacare fails, and it will, the Democrats will push for a fully government-run health care system. After so many years of perception manipulation, the American people will agree. Republicans will acquiesce, because they’re spineless, and the United States will join the ranks of the U.K. and Canada.

This could all be prevented, of course, if the Republicans would be willing to argue on free-market principles – but they aren’t. Self-interest and fear govern their philosophy, and as long as those feelings are the prevailing drivers of Republican policy, conservatism will die.

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