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July 16, 2009 (LPAC)—President Obama has attempted to put the Congress on a forced march to pass his Hitler health care plan on his schedule, before the normal August recess. "We're going to get this done," he ranted, at a Rose Garden press conference today.

LaRouche evaluated the situation as follows: "One has to be realistic. President Obama is behaving like an insane man. His wishes are not law, especially given his widely-known psychological problems. President Obama must accept that saner minds have the right to intervene."

Obama was buoyed by the fact that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), had passed out a health care reform bill that morning by a party-line vote of 13 to 10, and that three House Committees have drafted a 1,000-plus page bill, which has been put on a forced march by the House leadership.

A review of the Tri-committee house bill (America's Affordable Health Choices Act) shows that it's divided into two parts: first, the measures to raise funds to pay for it, as in taxing the rich; and second, cost-cutting measures. The former, along with extension of coverage to the uninsured, are not scheduled to go into effect until 2013; the latter — the cuts — are to go into effect right away.

Among the cost-containment measures, supposed to go along with eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, are the following measures, which echo Orszag Nazi-medicine themes:

* Creates incentives to reduce preventable hospital readmissions, that reward transition planning and coordination for patients who move from a hospital bed back home or to another health facility;

* Promotes Accountable Care Organizations that provide for hospitals and doctors working together to manage care;

* Establishes pilot projects to test "bundling" payment methodology ... to any combination of a physician, acute, and post-acute care providers;

* Builds productivity adjustments into provider payment systems, encouraging providers to improve efficiency on pace with the rest of the economy.

During the first mark-up session for the Tricommittee bill, being held in the Labor and Pensions Committee today, only Rep. Kucinich sharply attacked the bill, and fought for the single-payer option. Like Bernie Sanders the day before, he pointed to the role of the private insurers in driving up health care costs, and in being protected in the current bill.

In a letter sent out today, Kucinich argues:

"Of $2.4 trillion spent annually for health care in America, fully $800 billion goes for the activities of the for-profit insurer-based system. This means one of every three health care dollars is siphoned off for corporate profits, stock options, executive salaries, advertising, marketing, and the cost of paper work, (which can be anywhere between 15%-35% in the private sector as compared to Medicare, the single payer plan which has only 3% administrative costs).

"50 million Americans are uninsured and another 50 million are under insured, while for-profit insurance companies divert precious health care dollars to non-health care purposes. Eliminate the for-profit health care system and its extraordinary overhead, put the money into health care, and everyone will be covered, everyone will be able to afford health care."

What Kucinich, Sanders, and other refuse to do, so far, is what must be done to win this fight: Condemn Obama's health care policy as the Nazi health policy it is. As LaRouche said back in 1996, "Call a bottle of milk a bottle of milk."