Posted on 12/31/2009 9:58:20 AM PST by rabscuttle385
The Democrats’ biggest accomplishment of this decade was getting a package through both houses of Congress mandating that every American have health insurance.
Their biggest accomplishment of the next decade will be watching it fail. Then they can get what they really want, a government takeover of health care.
That’s my prediction. It’s based on what I call the Frito-Lay theory of health reform: Mandates are like potato chips; you can’t have just one.
Just for fun, I ran that theory by someone who has been watching the health care debate up close, Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, a free-market think tank in Washington. Cannon agreed with my premise: Each mandate will lead to another mandate, which will lead to another, until everything is mandated.
Democrats in Congress are crying crocodile tears at the moment over their failure to get a public option through the Senate. But they’ll eventually compromise on a bill that President Obama will sign early next year, Cannon predicts. “That’s how the leadership is going to sell it to the lefties,” he said. “They’ll say, ‘We’ll get single-payer in a couple of years.’”
If they do, the Republicans will be partly at fault. It was a Republican, Mitt Romney, who first introduced the idea of an individual mandate in his role as governor of Massachusetts. And many of Romney’s fellow Republicans in Congress accepted the concept of the mandate while saving their objections for the public option and for minor cutbacks in Medicare that are needed anyway. That was a key tactical error.
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...check out this guy, Scott Brown...he could be the 41st Republican Senator and BLOCK healthcare, if he is elected in the special election Jan 19th in Massachusetts for Kennedy’s seat..maybe THAT’S why the big rush to push this thru!
http://www.redinvadesblue.com/Moneybomb/Donate.html
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I guess the democrats solution to the hunger problem will be to pass a law forcing people to purchase food !
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Captured my thinking from day one of this debacle. The whole public option debate is a red herring. The gov't mandates and regulates will wreck the private insurance market then the US version of the UK NHS will start to look appealing to the public.
Good one! But they would also need a giant bureaucracy detailing exactly how food should be grown, sold, processed and distributed. Then they would blame the farmers for the resulting famine.
They don't even be in the majority in the House by this time next year, let alone in 2 year's time.
By 2012, a lot of the Democratic congressmen will be lucky yo get a job as shoe shine boys.
Total rubbish! Exactly how did they do that? Romney has never been in the US Senate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#Healthcare
Romney vetoed eight sections of the health care legislation, including an employer assessment and provisions providing health coverage to senior and disabled legal immigrants not eligible for federal Medicaid. The legislature overrode all eight vetoes.
Isn’t that part of the food stamp program?
Or maybe the food stamp program simply has to be updated to require only healthy food? No fast food, soda, red bull, alcohol, twinkies - just rice, beans and veggies. Some milk and dairy unless the vegans get their way.
Make it so healthy that people will get jobs or raise their own food that eat it.
They know the pubbies won’t lift a finger to repeal it.
Then they’ll soon be back in power, this time to stay.
Based on previous experience, I’d have to say they’re right.
When was the last Republican administration to actually SHRINK government? Since Coolidge, that is?
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