I am not optimistic about this health care bill. I am happy that Hillary and Pelosi did not get a license to expand the breach, which would have been truly horrific. But when comparing horrors of different magnitude, it is easy to lump it all together as just so much gore. So my internal risk manager tells me to be grateful. Fine, I’m grateful.
But that does not mean optimistic. I don’t wish to make perfect the enemy of good, but I’m hardly insisting upon perfection here. All I want is for government to get out of the health care rationing business, and that’s not what we’re going to get. The Republicans are likely to get stuck with the failure of this all, and then the next round of commiecrats will be granted a license to try their hand at a “comprehensive reform” of health care.
It didn’t have to be like this. We have had plenty of opportunities to kill this thing, which is where the GOP and their let’s not fight now” schtick was so damaging. Then there were all of the doomed bills passed by Republican majorities first in the House, then by both houses, guaranteed to be vetoed by Obama because they simply repealed ObamaCare. Why can we not have one of those bills passed now? There is great support available for this if these knuckleheads wanted it. All they have to say is that no country should be saddled with a bill so large passed by exactly one party. Repeal the whole thing and then open debate on how to improve health care from a bipartisan (ugh) position. Why not embrace interstate insurance and kiosk medicine? Offer the Democrats a hand in crafting some legislation that everybody can get behind?
Well, there’s no selling this car because there’s no car here. The GOP is no more interested in repealing ObamaCare than the democrats are, and in some ways, even less. The Democrats are about to be stuck with an ass full of failed ObamaCare, which the Republicans were terrified to harm when they were able to. Now that it is beginning to wound and maim its victims, the Democrats would love for the GOP to tinker enough to own it, but not enough to kill the thing outright.
Sigh.
