U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-CT,  (seen at right with Ned Lamont) announced Friday that he was going to vote for the $1 trillion theft of our nation’s health care system, completing the sweep of Connecticut’s Congressional delegation. U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-CT, did as well but this was no surprise. Courtney has worshipped at this alter since his days in the state legislature.

Murphy’s unimaginative statement is standard Nancy Pelosi boilerplate:

“The message from the people I represent is clear – health care costs and health insurance practices are out of control. While nearly every person I meet has a different idea about what the exact fix should be, everyone agrees that doing nothing is not an option. We need to make changes to the current system to provide people access to affordable care, to cut costs for businesses, and to strengthen Medicare for seniors. The changes we need to make to our health care system will only come by transferring power away from the health insurance industry and to consumers. The current health insurance reform bill does this, and that’s why I plan on voting in favor of its final passage.”

First, Medicare and Medicaid, already heading toward bankruptcy will be raided to pay for a good chunk of this plan. Millions will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid, meaning there will even less care to go around since physicians are dropping Medicaid patients like man-hole covers. Medicaid dramatically underpays for medical services. So, the most frail and poor, many of whom who rely on public transit to get around, will have to go further for routine matters – let along major operation.

“This bill has real, immediate benefits for people. It closes the Medicare drug donut hole, lowers small business health costs, and insures 18,000 of my constituents that currently don’t have health care. But maybe most importantly, the bill extends the solvency of Medicare for another decade, and cuts the national deficit by $140 billion. That’s real progress that shouldn’t be denied to the people of Connecticut.”

Again, another set of lies that are not backed up by the bills or the demands of the market.  The program calls for $1 trillion in new taxes on individuals and businesses for the next four year until one dime of care is spent in year five.  Private insurance will contract with the government calling the shots on coverage and fees.

But, we will have universal care – just like they do in Great Britain. And as Winston Churchill said, “we are at the end of the beginning.”

The passage of the bill also triggers the implementation of the Sustinet program in Connecticut, a monstrosity concocted by the Democratic-Majority and Speaker Chris Donovan. The Sustinet program will open the state’s health care plan to non-profits and municipalities for starters and could cost another $3 billion to taxpayers.