Keep them honest?

One of President Obama's tactics in pushing his health care takeover is a claim that a government run public option will keep insurance companies "honest." This begs the question -- Who will keep government honest?
So far we have heard many claims from the Democrat leadership pushing this plan that can only be described, at best, as dishonest.
They claim we will be able to keep our current health care plans. This has been proven false. Large companies will be given a five year grace period before being forced to either offer a "qualified" plan comparable to the federal mandate or shift employees onto the public plan. All others will be shifted to the public plan if even the minutest change is made to their current plan.
They claim the public plan will increase coverage to an additional 47 million people while reducing costs. Again, false. This is simply illogical. How can you drastically increase a program without drastically cutting costs? Several independent studies, including from the Congressional Budget Office, have showed the plan will cost far more than any potential savings and will add far more to the deficit, to the tune of nearly $2 trillion. There is no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow. The only solution to reducing costs under the plan is to limit services, which leads to the next point.
They claim their plan does not promote rationing. Wrong again. Without a substantial increase in numbers of doctors to serve the additional 47 million people, rationing and denial of services will necessarily follow. Despite the claims that the elderly will not be affected, much of the administration's book-cooking is from shifting funds from medicare. Not to mention the "comparative research studies," which is simply a euphemism for cost-benefit analysis. The elderly cost too much for too little benefit. Who is more likely to qualify for a heart valve replacement -- a 50-year-old who will live for thirty more years, or a 70-year-old who will live for ten?
They insist the public option is not just an innocuous means toward a government run single payer health care system. Wrong again. We've explored this previously. Their own words bely their true intentions.
The Democrat leadership is now claiming the protesters showing up at town hall meetings are "manufactured." False. These are real people who are concerned and upset about the direction in which President Obama and the Democrat leadership are taking the country, people who just want to be heard, who do not want their voices silenced. It's funny, the Democrat leadership is calling the movement of the people "astroturfed," phony grass-roots, which is a concept invented, coincidentally, by Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod.
Before they accuse insurance companies, doctors, and average citizens of deceit, perhaps the President and the Democrat leadership should try to keep themselves honest.