A Trojan Horse usually carries a whole horde of invading marauders.

Not the “public option,” though. That Trojan Horse is carrying a single payer.

Writing at Big Government, Morgen Richmond says the “public option” is just a sneaky way to bring socialist health care to the U.S.

The truth is that the public plan is a carefully devised scheme, a sneaky strategy, to deceive American voters. It’s a political marketing ploy designed to move the nation to a single-payer system – like the one in Canada – over the next decade. The public option is the Trojan horse.

He says he’s got proof, and maybe he does. Me, I don’t need proof. I have logic.

Point one: private industry can’t “compete” with the federal government. The Feds’ resources are simply too vast. Their power to change the rules as they see fit – both bureaucratically and legislatively – is too overwhelming.

Point two: private businesses will discover that it’s cheaper and/or easier to simply push their employees onto the public option than to maintain and manage private plans and to pay extra human resources staff.

That will actually be the real test: will the Feds increase penalties on companies that stop offering health insurance, in order to reduce the incentive to dump it? Or will it be fuel to the Government-Must-Step-In fire?

Point three: as the Baby Boomers get older, they’ll all be leaving private insurance for Medicare anyway. Having to pay for all of that, none of the rest of us will be able to afford health insurance anymore. Onto the government dole we go!

See? Over time, the public option will grow and grow until yep, we’ve got ourselves a single payer system. And I didn’t need a lick of proof to do it.

Via Memeorandum