Unhealthy Arrogance
By Thomas Sowell, National Review
The only thing healthy about Congress's health-insurance legislation is the healthy skepticism about it shown by most of the public, as revealed by polls. What is most unhealthy about this legislation is the raw arrogance in the way it was conceived and passed. Supporters of government health insurance call its passage "historic."
Past attempts to pass such legislation - going back for decades -failed repeatedly. But now both houses of Congress have passed government-health-care legislation and it is just a question of reconciling their respective bills and presenting President Obama with a political victory.
In short, this is not about improving the health of the American people. It is about passing something - anything - to keep the Obama administration from ending up with egg on its face by being unable to pass a bill, after so much hype and hoopla.
Politically, looking impotent is a formula for disaster at election time. Far better to pass even bad legislation that will not actually go into effect until after the 2012 presidential election, so that the public will not know whether it makes medical care better or worse until it is too late for the voters to hold the administration accountable.
The utter cynicism of this has been apparent from the outset, in the rush to pass a health-care bill in a hurry, in order to meet wholly arbitrary, self-imposed deadlines.
First it was supposed to be passed before the August 2009 congressional recess. Then it was supposed to be passed before Labor Day. When that didn't happen, it was supposed to be rushed to passage before Christmas.
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They have also included language, directly violating the Constitution that will forbid any future Congresses from changing or nullifying it.
I truly hope that the funds are there to challenge this bill in the U S Supreme Court. It must be done before this President talks (I assume they only talked to Sutor) any more Supreme Court Justice's into "retiring."
Do not forget how certain members of Congress were able to be bought off to insure the passage of this bill!
Again I remind all, that a 2/3 vote in each state legislature comprising (34) 2/3's of the states, will automatically become law. We can change this with a concerted effort by each of the states and stand against this tyranny.
All of us need to make sure that we single out each of the members of Congress that voted for this bill and expose them for what they are in the up and coming elections. This is our opportunity to regain control of the House and Senate and end this " Mr. Toads Wild Ride" going on now.
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