By Douglas V. Gibbs
President Barack Obama during his 2014 State of the Union Speech: "Now, I have heard rumors that a few of you still have concerns about our new health care law. (Laughter.) So let me be the first to say that anything can be improved. If you have ideas about how to improve this law by making care better or more affordable, I am eager to work with you."
The Republicans are scrambling to come up with an alternative plan to Obamacare. They are convinced they must come up with a more conservative version of the federal health care law, as if any federal program can be "conservative." They have been dared to do so. Obama dared them to last night in his State of the Union speech.
Despite what Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, or the liberal leftist judges, proclaim, there is no authority in the Constitution for the federal government to have any involvement with the nation's health care system. It is none of their business. But Obama does not understand that, and the GOP Establishment has trouble understanding that, as well. Theirs is a foreign interpretation of what a central government should be.
Obama's message is always that he's a problem solver, and the solution to the problem, whatever it is, is more government. The government is the embodiment, in the eyes of these people, of the American collective. Individuals can't be trusted. Individual corporations, individual people, and individual States, can't be trusted. Only the federal government can save you. So, he dared Congress last night, if you have a better idea, let me know. Let me know your idea on how the federal government can solve the problems of society.
Government intrusion is not the solution. It is the whole cause of the problem.
I don't want the Republicans, or any other politician, to figure out a better federal health care plan. I want them to realize that federal intrusion is the problem, and work to repeal Obamacare. Don't fall for his dare, and don't fall for his flawed premise.
The problem with the health care system is not the private sector, but the fact that there is a third party paying for our health care in the first place. And that third party, right now, is the insurance industry. The leftist solution is to replace that third party with them as a third party, which is hardly a solution. The goal needs to be to deemphasize the role of a third party, and work to gradually return us to a patient-provider relationship. That was when doctors made house calls. They were competing for the business of the consumer. They provided more quality, and did what they could to keep prices as low as possible.
I get it. With insurance everybody's money is pooled together to help with the cost of health care, but to use health insurance for every little scrape and bump is ridiculous. I don't expect my automobile insurance to pay for oil changes, so why is health insurance paying for me to have my temperature taken?
In the end, the reality is that the leftists could care less about health care. Your health is not the reason they are doing this. It is all about control, and expanding the role of the federal government in your life. Health care is the ultimate control. If they are paying for your care, it gives them the allowance to dictate to you what you are allowed to do in regards to your health. They can determine if you can smoke, what you should eat, and what activities you can participate in. It is the ultimate opportunity for government control over your life.
Even if it hurts them politically, it is worth it to them (Carney said so), because it increases the size of government, and ultimately opens up the opportunity for the elite to increase their control, and for you to become more of an automaton operating at the pleasure of the elitists in control. Besides, they fully expect that once everything is in place, the people will become dependent upon it, and it will force the opposition to stop their fight against it, and learn to accept that their opposition to government controlled health care is going nowhere.
We must keep that from happening. The goal is defeat. Defeat Obamacare, defeat the Democrats, and defeat statism. On this, there can be no compromise. Otherwise, yet another step will be complete in the destruction of America as it was founded.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Carney: Obamacare worth it, no matter political consequences - Yahoo News
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