Krauthammer: Ordering Insurance Companies Around Is ‘Essentially Nationalizing Health Care’

The federal government is nationalizing the American health-care system, Charles Krauthammer said Friday night.

Krauthammer criticized the way the administration has been ordering about – or strongly encouraging – insurance companies to do things as if they were “wholly owned subsidiaries.”

“What you have here is what a lot of us have predicted years ago; the insurers, under the best scenario under Obamacare, have as much independence as the utilities,” he said.