Krauthammer Predicts Fascism

That's my interpretation, but you should read for yourself here. Krauthammer actually claims to be predicting the death of "the public option" and its grisly company in the monstrosity that has generated so much anger at the town hall meetings. I come to my conclusion that it's fascism he predicts based on this passage in his piece:

The end result is the liberal dream of universal and guaranteed coverage — but without overt nationalization. It is all done through private insurance companies. Ostensibly private. They will, in reality, have been turned into government utilities. No longer able to control whom they can enroll, whom they can drop, and how much they can limit their own liability, they will live off government largesse — subsidized premiums from the poor; forced premiums from the young and healthy.

The fundamental economic difference between fascism and socialism is that the former leaves private property intact while regulating it to death and the latter gives "the people" (the government) ownership. In practice, of course, the outcomes are very similar. Krauthammer notes that too:

Isn’t there a catch? Of course, there is. This scheme is the ultimate bait-and-switch. The pleasure comes now, the pain later. Government-subsidized universal and virtually unlimited coverage will vastly compound already out-of-control government spending on health care. The financial and budgetary consequences will be catastrophic.
However, they will not appear immediately. And when they do, the only solution will be rationing. That’s when the liberals will give the FCCCER regulatory power and give you end-of-life counseling.
But by then, resistance will be feeble. Why? Because at that point the only remaining option will be to give up the benefits we will have become accustomed to. Once granted, guaranteed universal health care is not relinquished. Look at Canada. Look at Britain. They got hooked; now they ration. So will we.

What to do?
I don't know.
Weep?

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