"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.

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.

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The pre-existing condition thing drives me crazy.

It is essentially driven by those who want the government to support them—like anyone dependent on welfare—without having to give up their stuff before they qualify for such support.

Obamacare was designed not only to drive us to socialized medicine, but to get there by first disguising that socialism by redistribution within a government-controlled takeover of what had been an actual system of insurance.

We already have a safety net for healthcare and that is Medicaid. But people pushing for government-mandated coverage for pre-existing conditions do so wanting in effect to get Medicaid without having to first spend down their own resources before they qualify for it.

1. The term “conservative” has the inference of status quo - “to conserve” - “to keep as is”.

2. George Will ID’s himself as a “conservative.” So did Krauthammer. Both hate/hated Trump. Trump is political spark and divider because he loves America regardless of politics. That to me is a Patriot. There are plenty of “conservatives” who love the things they want to keep - whatever they are, more than the Free Constitutional Republic of America.

3. “Seeking to conserve whatever is of value, and to discard whatever is not...includes transcendent truths and values” is great but very subjective. To win the political/legal battle against the Left, you must adhere to OBJECTIVE values - CODIFIED, TRANSCENDENT values - and that is found in the Constitution, the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND. I find that most “conservatives” are flummoxed by this and don’t even have that idea on their radar screen..

4. Being a Patriot is not necessarily being a Christian although my guess is most patriots are probably born-again Christians.

5. Yup, I’d say “conservatism”goes right along with “traditionalist” which ties into “establishment”. And there’s the rub. The “Establishment” in basically every field of endeavor is the problem. “Conservatives” generally find security in the traditions of established institutions even if such institutions have become destructive to freedom and a peaceful society. And freedom, not tradition/establishment is what America is all about. Freedom begets change. But freedom will NEVER survive without faith - faith in the God of the Bible. So it’s security and faith in God and a consuming desire to be free of tyranny vs. security and faith in the status quo and (very often) man’s institutions (”tradition”).

6. You’ve missed the boat entirely with your comment here and is often where people on the Right unwittingly become”useful idiots” of the Left. Get on board with restoring America’s Free Constitutional Republic. THAT is what this culture war is all about.

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