Tom DeLay: Federal Healthcare Solution Unconstitutional

by JASmius

Repeal and....that's it?





This declaration would be easier to credit were it not coming from a man who, as House Majority Leader, was instrumental in muscling Medicare Part D through Congress and into law.  Indeed, it's precisely the sort of "easy for you to say" declaration that is so often made by former Republican officeholders.  That DeLay's declaration is correct is, ironically, almost immaterial.

Of course, I'm not quite sure what he is suggesting, or what he thinks congressional Republicans would do if they had carte blanche to repeal and....whatever.  I highly doubt that they'd turn around and enact ObamaCare-lite.  I am confident that they would enact free-market-based health care reform that would clean government interference out of as much of American health care as possible.  That's not "nothing".  And "do nothing" isn't a viable GOP health care policy sales pitch; in point of fact, it's what ultimately stuck us with ObamaCare in the first place.

We can and must be proactive.  But we must to so in a constitutional, free market context.  And that most definitely is "something" worth pursuing.