“Who needs enemies when you’ve got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?” —Michelle Malkin
Eleven days have passed since the Supreme Court Healthcare mandate ruling. And with breakneck lightening speed pundits on both sides took to the airwaves, spinning, expounding, pontificating, analyzing and finger-wagging. What was shocking to many in the pregnant pause of waiting for the decision was that it was Justice Roberts who was the swing vote to uphold the law.
For months, we heard a regular smorgasbord of talking heads on television, radio and in blogs predicting the mandate would fall and be declared “unconstitutional” by the nation’s highest court. The court’s upholding of the mandate drew a shockwave throughout the land. “Surprise, Surprise…”
The socialists, class warfare crowd and other varied strains of lefty Kool-Aid Drinkers all got what they sought: “A ‘constitutional’ healthcare mandate.” But don’t ask them how they arrived there. “Shut up, Now! It’s constitutional!
Barry Soretoro a/k/a Barack Obama, for the longest time, defended the mandate as, “not being a tax.” Much ado has been made during our socialist President’s sit-down with ABC News’ George Stephanopolous when he took “Stephy” to task for calling it a tax. So Stephanopolous gives Barry a Merriam Webster’s Dictionary definition of a tax increase, to which he chides Stephy, denying the Healthcare mandate is a tax increase. Well….acording to the high court… It’s a tax.
Susan Brooks Thistlewaite on July 8 in the Washington Post details Justice John Roberts as a, “Judas.” Others have said he is “dumb like a fox,” assigning motives to the Chief Justice such as throwing the issue back into the political arena to galvanize the conservative base. Who really knows? Who really cares?
After all has been said and done and the dust settles, the bottom line is this: We have a government willing to tell us what we can eat or cannot eat; what kind of cars we drive or what kind of products we use; What we can say or not say, somehow under the pretext of free speech; And finally, whether or not we shall be required to purchase health insurance from a market that is restricted, closed and given to monopolies.
So now the law of the land is that an insurance tax may be imposed on each and every one of us and those of us who refuse to pay will receive the full force and retribution of the IRS. Despite this, nobody has even come close to addressing the why in why Healthcare is so expensive and what drives costs. Liberals like to resort to class warfare and blame personal greed.
It’s not like we do not know what government mandated healthcare gives us. We have already seen the net result first hand in European countries that have had it for some time. Government-run healthcare is in fact, rationed care, plain and simple. There are clear winners and losers. And the losers can die waiting for care. We hear from the winners in Michael Moore’s leftist propaganda movies, but not from the losers. And, despite the long history and track record of Government care elsewhere, somehow liberals think it can work here. Kind of like looking at a large Brick wall where, at its base lie piles of dead rotting corpses…and there is always one liberal who will say, “they just didn’t hit the wall at the correct angle.”
How come so many people come to America from other places that have government-run healthcare to have major medical procedures and surgeries done? How come? Could it be that they have to wait a very very long time in their home lands?
Here is what we have not tried. Litigation Reform.We have not made meaningful litigation reform. Our country is such that people can sue at the drop of a hat. And they are not accountable for the result when they lose. Physicians and healthcare providers, on the other hand, reap higher cost malpractice insurance premiums. Market-based Insurance. Purchasing health insurance across state lines would drive down costs, making it affordable for all. More competitors in the market place. Meaningful Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Reform. GAO estimates show medicaid fraud to be upwards of $48 Billion.
Finally, all this talk about a free market system leaving people without access to healthcare? Hogwash. This country has always had some form of safety net in place for people unable to afford medical treatment. We don’t need to read any studies or periodicals, but only to listen to the progressive statists cry and whine for more entitlement money. (no amount is ever enough).
I think Justice Roberts made the wrong decision. He should have thrown the whole thing out. After all, Obama’s hacks made a commerce clause argument, not a taxation argument. But the question before us remains…”Are we a country that will throw off this socialistic yoke and rid ourselves of Barack Obama?
