The Case Against ObamaCare.

[AztecWilliam]

Well, to be more correct a particular case against ObamaCare. Whether you are for or against the new law, it is important to understand what intelligent, thoughtful, and well-informed people on both sides think.

This is one strong case against. One passage that expresses one of my personal fears in this regard is as follows. . .

They (the public) understand this health care bill forces individuals and employers to buy insurance policies designed by government bureaucrats. This intrusion is intended to follow us from cradle to grave.

Instead of empowering families and individuals to make their own choices, ObamaCare empowers the bureaucracy to make those decisions for them. It is this unelected bureaucracy, unanswerable to the electorate, that will determine the content of health benefits packages, including medical treatment and procedures, and how much will be paid for those services. Yesterday's legislation brings us one step closer to fully government-run medicine, with expanded government power over the financing and delivery of medical services that is sure to ration care in the name of cost control.

But I cannot agree with everything contained in this piece. Here is a statement with which I must disagree. . .

Fortunately, there are no permanent victories or defeats in Washington.

I very much fear that if this is allowed to stand and becomes an every day fact in people's lives, it will be nearly impossible to reverse. Or perhaps even to mend in any meaningful way. As I've said before, once a majority of a country's citizens believe they must depend on benefits from the government, they will fight tooth and nail against any attempt, no matter how logical or how justified by the facts of the case, to reduce those benefits.

www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/23/obamacare_can_be_repealed_104876.html

AzWm

[aztecwin]

The hope as far as I am concerned is that we will be able to repeal and replace while only the taxes are in place and not much of the so called benefit. Once the public gets hooked on another freebie regardless of the cost, it will be hard to get rid of.

[aztecwin]

Here is more on how Seniors will suffer under Obama Care. You can't take over $500 Billion out of Medicare without it harming those on Medicare. This helps explain if farther.

www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37192

[AztecWilliam]

Well, many of us were warning that the health reform law would cause lots of trouble, but the Dems decided to go along with it, anyway.

How sad that genuine bipartisan compromises, which were indeed possible, were rejected in favor of a huge, expensive, one-size-fits-all plan that was in any case neither well thought-out nor understood.

AzWm

[AztecWilliam]

I should add this; the really bad elements of this law will become evident to the American people only gradually. That may make it harder to remedy those bad elements.

AzWm

[AlwaysAnAztec]

May 29, 2010 11:42:23 GMT -8 AztecWilliam said:

Well, many of us were warning that the health reform law would cause lots of trouble, but the Dems decided to go along with it, anyway.

How sad that genuine bipartisan compromises, which were indeed possible, were rejected in favor of a huge, expensive, one-size-fits-all plan that was in any case neither well thought-out nor understood.

AzWm

The party of "No" had, and still has, no intention of trying to work with the Democrats.

[aztecwin]

Jun 1, 2010 16:03:13 GMT -8 AlwaysAnAztec said:

May 29, 2010 11:42:23 GMT -8 AztecWilliam said:

Well, many of us were warning that the health reform law would cause lots of trouble, but the Dems decided to go along with it, anyway.

How sad that genuine bipartisan compromises, which were indeed possible, were rejected in favor of a huge, expensive, one-size-fits-all plan that was in any case neither well thought-out nor understood.

AzWm

The party of "No" had, and still has, no intention of trying to work with the Democrats.

I am afraid that the reverse is true also.