That means, of course, that negotiations with the U.S. House to reconcile differences with a bill passed by that body soon will begin. Before long, the nation will have health care reform. ... Ouch.
For all the rhetoric about how the proposals represent our caring for our fellow Americans and about how having good health care should be a birthright, congressional Democrats have come up with two bills that are more about increasing government control of our lives than offering a cost-efficient way of helping those among the estimated/(inflated?) nearly 50 million uninsured people who want insurance to get it.
Instead, the proposal that soon will be rammed through by congressional Democrats and signed by President Obama will swell the numbers of people in government health care programs, will increase its body of rules and regulations over private businesses and industries and will impose more taxes and penalties on businesses and individuals who would rather not play by the Democrats’ rules.
There’s also the matter of raising income taxes on some, cutting Medicare funds for others and adding whatever other revenue grabs have been added to fund the initiative and the massive pork projects that were included to buy the support of Democratic Party members.
And then there’s the absence of tort reform to cap the amounts of awards in medical liability lawsuits in either bill and the likelihood that House-passed language to remove the insurance industry from some anti-trust legislation won’t fly. Plus, add in the fact that neither the House-passed nor the Senate-passed bill will result in the insuring of the entire population of legal Americans.
So basically what we will have is the expansion of federal government control in our everyday lives and a bigger federal government hand grabbing cash from our pockets and giving it to selected others. ... Ouch.
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