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Obamascare Clears House

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Sickening!

Congress clears historic health care bill

Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.

Widely viewed as dead two months ago, the Senate-passed bill cleared the House on a 219-212 vote. Republicans were unanimous in opposition, joined by 34 dissident Democrats.

SO…what will we REALLY get? (Besides inevitable national bankruptcy!)

Obamacare Means 159 New Gov’t Agencies

Oh, joy…just what we need. (NOT!)

The new government agencies that will be created as the result of Obamacare will worsen the quality of American medical care by restricting physicians and hospitals to use their best judgment, according to Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., a physician and chairman of the Republican Study Committee.

In fact, he says, the bill would create 159 new governemnt agencies to regulate insurance and medical care for Americans.

In Churchillian terms this will not be the end of the debate…it’s not the beginning of the end…it’s the end of the beginning.

Hatch Says It’s ’Nuts’ to Think House Vote Ends Health Issue

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch said Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are “nuts” to think tomorrow’s vote on health-care legislation will resolve the issue.

If the measure passes, Senate Republicans have enough votes on at least two points of order to alter the measure and send it back to the House for a second round of votes, Hatch said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.

“If those people think they’re only going to vote on this once, they’re nuts,” Hatch said as House Democratic leaders rounded up support before the scheduled vote on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

“Any stick will do when you want to beat a snake.”

One thought on “Obamascare Clears House”

  1. What’s sickening is conservatives like you who are on the wrong side of history, common sense and compassion for those who are suffering under our flawed health system.

    Chief’s Reply

    • “wrong side of history” Hmmm. Sorry, I don’t accept Marxist historical determinism as being a valid theory, but you’re free to think whatever you like.
    • “common sense” dictates that there just flat out isn’t enough money to pay for all this in spite of the common non-sense like the garbage-in-garbage-out CBO reports (replete with double counting errors, incomplete information, etc.).
    • “compassion”? Hmmm. Excuse my personal views here…I believe that Christ did command all to aid the poor (even as he stated that “the poor are always with us”.) This does NOT mean giving everyone or anyone whatever they think they want or need. Again, the common sense point noted above comes into play, as does the undesirability of “enabling” self-destructive behaviors. By the way, there ARE a number of reforms that could have been applied that really would have made real improvements, without setting up the socialization of the system.

    To repeat for emphasis, we do have PERSONAL responsibility to be charitable under Christ’s teaching and example. HOWEVER…this does not morally justify me in walking up to you on the street with my gun, taking your money, and then turning around and using it to meet the demands of aiding someone I think is in need. This act is not morally improved if I get a friend to join in to help me in this activity, either.

    By logical extension, neither can this be morally justified if I round up, say 90 million or so of my closest friends, form a political party, and then use the guns of the state’s police power to do the same thing on a larger scale: individually immoral acts do not somehow become moral when committed by a group. If they were, virtually anything, up to and beyond the holocaust or GULAGs could logically be justified on the basis of group dynamics alone – something like say, a “dictatorship of the proletariat”, or some similar concept…of course all in the name of a theoretical “collective good”.

    Of course if you don’t accept a morality founded in “the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” as stated in the Declaration of Independence, then I guess you could come up with rationalization for about anything, as noted above. Historical determinism does this quite easily: “if it can be done, and it is done, then by definition it’s justified.” I don’t buy that!

    Finally, as noted in my posting immediately after this one, there is a lack of Constitutional authority for this. Remember, the Constitution is designed deliberately to STOP government from being intrusive. Even B.O., the anointed one himself has noted this (with disapproval) in his previous academic incarnation.

    Finally, this particular legislative monstrosity (Obamacare) can’t even muster a majority of popular support…but in the best Progressive tradition, the governmental elite experts (whether elected, selected, or entrenched in the bureaucracy) are assumed to know better than the people what is best for each individual, and it’s our place to be loyal members of the collective, and fall into line.

    Sorry. That’s not for me! To quote a line from the movie Serenity: “I intend to misbehave!”

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