Obamacare is Making Me Crazy
By Alan
Caruba
The late
William F. Buckley, Jr., the founder of the National Review and advocate of
conservatism, once said, “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other
views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other
views.”
The truth
of this is being acted out as Democrat leaders blame Republicans for the
failures of Obamacare, no doubt because no Republican in Congress voted for the
Affordable Care Act, one of the great misnomers of recent times. There is
nothing affordable about Obamacare for the millions who have had their health
care policies cancelled, only to learn that the government-approved policies
now come with far higher premiums.
Obamacare
is an example of the great failure of liberalism; the belief that the solution
to all problems can be provided by the government. Anyone with even the
slightest knowledge of the U.S. Constitution knows that it was it was written
to limit the federal government’s powers. It mostly says to Congress and the
President, “no, you can’t do that.” It most certainly doesn’t say they have the
power to compel people to buy something they don’t want by calling it a tax.
At this
point, Obamacare is driving me crazy as I dial around the radio or the television
trying to find any news of anything else. It is a non-stop orgy of talking
heads all saying the same thing depending on whether they are defending or
attacking it.
My own
health plan with AARP was altered and I have had to find a new physician who is
part of its HMO plan. I liked my former physician and like many people I find
this mandate one more way Obamacare has taken away my free choice in such
matters.
Government
should not be doing this and, if any good comes out of this, it is that
millions of Americans sleep-walking through life have discovered how hideous it
is when government eliminates any “real” choice. Offering you a bunch of
healthcare insurance policies you don’t want or which are too costly is not a
definition of choice.
Politically,
this is a Republican wet dream. The November 18 Rasmussen Report poll found
that 58% of the likely voters they surveyed view Obamacare “unfavorably.”
That’s up five points from the previous survey and “the highest finding in
regular surveying since early January.” The report noted that 62% believe that
increased free market competition will do more to reduce health care costs than
more government regulation.
Many
Republican pundits are advising that the Party do nothing to delay the
implementation of Obamacare. Larry Kudlow reminds people of the old political
adage, “If your opponent is determined to hang himself, for Heaven’s sake,
don’t take away the rope.”
There are
a dozen Democratic
Senators who are up for reelection in the 2014 midterm elections: They are Mark
Begich (Alaska), Dick Durbin (IL), Al Franken (MN), Kay Hagan, (NC), Mary
Landrieu (LA), Jeff Merkley (OR), Mark Pryor (ARK), Jack Reed (RI), Jeanne
Shaheen (NH), Mark Udall (CO), Tom Udall (NM), and Mark Warner (VA).
All voted
for Obamacare, as did every other Democrat in Congress. If they are defeated
and replaced by Republicans, the Senate and the House will have sufficient
votes to repeal Obamacare. It just doesn’t get less complicated than that. A
presidential veto would be over-ridden.
Meanwhile,
there are still a slew of cases making their way through the court system that
would overturn Obamacare as unconstitutional. The Supreme Court might welcome a
second whack at it in order to clean their hands of the mess to which they
contributed.
My own
educated guess is that Obama will continue to lie and lie and lie some more. At
some people, many brain-dead zombie liberals will rise from their ideological
graves and walk to the voting booths to register they anger and displeasure.
At some
point Obamacare is doomed. It’s just that awful.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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