Posted on 12/18/2018 4:09:00 PM PST by rebuildus
“CONSERVATIVE” OPPOSITION TO ENDING OBAMACARE MAKES ME SICK
A Howard Kurtz article on Fox News this morning, Why Some Conservatives Don’t Like the Ruling Against Obamacare,” is mis-titled. There should have been quote marks around the word “conservative.”
No self-respecting conservative would ever oppose a ruling striking down Obamacare, as has just happened when a federal judge in Texas ruled the law unconstitutional.
Think about it—how is it possible for a law MANDATING that you buy a product be Constitutional?
Medicine is a product. The practice of medicine is a commercial service. That’s free enterprise. If you force a doctor to practice, he or she is no longer a free individual. In some form or fashion, they are now your slave.
To force someone to BUY that product or service is also slavery.
I thought Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery!
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, who incidentally is pro-slavery when it comes to promoting illegal aliens and cheap labor for big corporations, said regarding the ruling, “No one opposes ObamaCare more than we do,” but the ruling “is likely to be overturned on appeal and may boomerang politically on Republicans.”
So don’t do the right thing because some on “your team” may act out of cowardice?
ObamaCare was a “misbegotten law,” says National Review. “Yet we cannot applaud Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision. Indeed, we deplore it. It will not lead to the replacement of Obamacare, as much as we desire that outcome. It will instead give Republicans another opportunity to dodge their responsibility to advance legislation toward that end … it is very likely to be overturned on appeal because it deserves to be.”
Same reasoning… God I despise these people! They are what’s wrong with “conservatives.” Of course, they are not conservative, and the name “conservative” should be stripped from them!
These are the kind of people who refuse to get behind President Trump’s pro-America, common sense agenda. They are traitors to the cause of freedom.
I am not going to pretend to have the ultimate answer for health care, especially this thorny issue of “pre-existing conditions.”
I do know that freeing up the system will bring costs down. It’s insurance that drives the costs up. When people are playing with someone else’s money, they are not frugal!
When you go into a hospital or clinic and do not see prices clearly listed for services, you no longer have a normal business, and I’m sorry, but again, health care is a business!
If you have “pre-existing conditions,” you will necessarily need more frequent, and more costly care. Perhaps there is a role for some government here, a “safety net” as they say, to help ensure that people in this situation get necessary care. But this is no reason to force a socialistic, privacy-destroying system on the rest of us!
In the end, you either believe in freedom, or you don’t. If you do, join with me. If you don’t, join with the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal or National Review.
Of course, not all conservatives agree with them. The Federalist says the judge’s ruling is overdue because “the blunt reality that Obamacare was always at heart a bad-faith proposition. The basic operation of the law, never stated or acknowledged by its authors, was to force younger, healthier people to subsidize health insurance for older, sicker people. It was a redistribution scheme, plain and simple.”
Let Obamacare die the death it deserves, to preserve some semblance of health freedom in the U.S. Get government “the hell out of the way,” as Trump might say (on other issues), keeping its role limited, and let sound health practices and private innovation lead us back to real health freedom.
I welcome your feedback.
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Congress can take care of Obamacare by doing what they do best...NOTHING!
More self-promotion.
Very nice.
I’ve long since abandoned the term/label “conservative” since not only do people not really know what it signifies, it actually infers “keeping (’conserving’) the status quo” - exactly what we DON’T need.
PATRIOT says it for me.
Conservatives love the things they want to keep - whatever they are.
Patriots love America and want to RESTORE her Free Constitutional Republic, which means HUGE change.
ObamaCare screws younger people for the benefit of older people. Younger people are mostly Democrats, while older people are mostly Republicans.
It's really that simple.
It's the same reason why the Republican Party won the House back in 2010 on a campaign of restoring Medicare spending that had been slashed to pay for Obamacare.
Yes -- it really is that simple.
How many conservatives want Social Security to continue?
Having the court kill it is ideal. No politicians get the blame (credit!) and it gives the RATs a taste of their own medicine by having a judge do this.
Old news. The Republicans have been in control of congress for 2 years and have nothing much about ANYTHING.
ObamaCare screws younger people for the benefit of older people. Younger people are mostly Democrats, while older people are mostly Republicans.
It's really that simple.
It's the same reason why the Republican Party won the House back in 2010 on a campaign of restoring Medicare spending that had been slashed to pay for Obamacare.
Yes -- it really is that simple.
Great points!
Just goes to show much campaign financing kickbacks are involved in ObamaCare.
I don't recognize the country I live in anymore. It's run by those who don't care about honesty or principle, only about how they can obfuscate and manipulate. Like Comey, they pat themselves on the back for ‘getting away with it’. We are not a special nation anymore.
You should read the 2nd paragraph of Benjamin Franklin’s speech of the 2nd of June 1787. Hecwarned us about this very thing.
Thanks very much. I will do this.
If you want to kill it fast, give the new democraps a early Christmas parent and rewind the Obama EO exempting them from joining it! Hell with them. Let them eat the crap sandwich they made...then complain about the taste. Trump needs to make their lives the same level of living hell they are about to make his!
No. Control for eight years. Total so-called control for two.
I want what I paid. It is my money.
I am a conservative. I am a Republican. I am old. I want Obamacare repealed. It is communism.
1. You mean implies, not infers.
2. No, it does not, in the political context, mean to preserve the status quo. You are regurgitating what leftist academics (including dictionary editors) and propagandists (especially journalists) assert conservative means - ever seeking to control the terms of the debate - not what actual thoughtful conservatives say it means.
3. I have disputed that very notion since I was a teenager! I do not seek to preserve the status quo; I seek to conserve whatever is of value, and to discard whatever is not. That, by the bye, means far more than merely personal, temporal possessions. It includes transcendent truths and values.
4. A patriot is certainly not necessarily a Christian, nor even necessarily a conservative. I am both, as well as a patriot.
5. The word that more correctly applies to this idea is traditionalist.
6. If you want to surrender further debating territory to the left, that is your choice. I absolutely refuse to do so, and will retain conscious use of, and personal claim to, the word, conservative.
Well, I had health insurance my entire life (I’m now 64) until 1/1/2014, the day Obamacare kicked in.
And people need to understand that there was never really a health insurance crisis in America. This video STILL explains what was really going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKCWbq18bNk
BTW, youtube is apparently “shadow banning” that video. When I typed in “uninsured in america” (the title) it did not show up. I had to go to Google search for “videos” to find it.
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