This evolution of complete government take-over of health care to be run by an insulated, unaccountable political class and its incompetent, anti-freedom bureaucracy. I agree that the ultimate goal is to single payer. However, he effect will be not only to destroy the best health care system (despite its current problems /distortions) but worse, to destroy individual liberty, and therefore freedom from the average American’s experience/mind. My opinion is that Obamacare is really about the acquisition and maintaining yet another enduring centralized power over people’s lives by the “intelligent few”, and not a conscious effort to destroy a health care system.
The Republican leadership is so inept and appear to becoming enablers of this fiasco, our loss of individual freedoms and to be shackled even more as subjects of the state. The Demo talking points to isolate the Tea party and bring the Rockefeller Republicans around is to use the compliant Press and paint Repubs as obstructionists who have no plan, want to shut the government down.
There are so many ways to seize this issue. The first is to repeat over ad nauseam that this is what one get when a government that is supposed to represent the people passes a 100% partisan, ghost written, secret 2000 page bill that no Congressjack*ss read. They want the “help” of the Republicans now only because Repub (supposedly) control the House and it is no longer a slam dunk. Except the Founders of this country knew that divided government was the only way a free people would have a chance to avoid tyranny and maintain their freedoms.
The House is not obligated to play this game. I would take any anti Republican speech made by Pelosi and Reid and change all their references to Republicans, substitute Democraps then read it back to the Press. The Democraps should have thought about Bipartisanship BEFORE they used their previously undivided powers to ram through such damaging legislation built on a pack of lies. Since the Democraps passed it all by themselves, they own it, and they can fix it by themselves. Let them run on it in 2014. And don’t doubt for 1 minute that Democraps would allow people like social security recipients suffer interruption of payments if they believed they could get elected on people’s suffering.
As I have seen other commenters rightly say, if the Republicans don’t stand up now on this fiasco, they will never stand up. (They were banking on John Roberts to do the hard work..ha ha). The Democraps know the longer this goes on, the more people will take notice and it will be turned against them. Never forget, when Democraps start advising what is good for their opposition, you will know their weaknesses and their fears.
I believe the term “Republican leadership” has become an oxymoron.
I agree with your points. The health care system in the U.S. has been the best in the world. The health care system is now in decline and Obamacare will damage it further and very possibly destroy it.
None of the “Republican leaders” are fighting to save health care or anything good in America. We need to clean house. I have no faith in any of the current politicians or political operatives.