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It’s been less than a month since the Democrats rammed through their government-run health care experiment, and they’re already plotting the next steps on their march to a single-payer system. For example, insurance companies are raising premium rates to match the growth of medical costs because ObamaCare does nothing to stop or slow them. So, to respond to angry voters who were promised relief from high prices, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) are introducing legislation to institute top-down, government price controls on the insurance industry. In other words, they didn’t listen to the chorus of voices telling them their bill would increase costs, passed it anyway and now need to close this unforeseen “loophole” with additional big government activism.

Public outrage over double-digit rate hikes for health insurance may have helped push President Obama's healthcare overhaul across the finish line, but the new law does not give regulators the power to block similar increases in the future… “It is a very big loophole in health reform,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said. Feinstein and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) are pushing legislation to expand federal and state authority to prevent insurance companies from boosting rates excessively.

Obama has previously endorsed Feinstein’s idea, which is fully consistent with his long-held goal of a single-payer health care system:

I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. … A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That's what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately.

He's also said:

If I were starting a system from scratch, then I think that the idea of moving towards a single-payer system could very well make sense. That's the kind of system that you have in most industrialized countries around the world. The only problem is that we're not starting from scratch.

Democrats are absolutely clear about where they want to go and how they’re going to get there. The only way to stop them is to fire Nancy Pelosi and repeal Obama’s government-run health care experiment.