I am not optimistic about this health care bill. \u00a0I am happy that Hillary and Pelosi did not get a license to expand the breach, which would have been truly horrific. \u00a0But when comparing horrors of different magnitude, it is easy to lump it all together\u00a0as just so much gore. \u00a0So my internal risk manager tells me to be grateful. \u00a0Fine, I’m grateful.<\/p>\n
But that does not mean optimistic. \u00a0I don’t wish to make perfect the enemy of good, but I’m hardly insisting upon perfection here. \u00a0All I want is for government to get out of the health care rationing business, and that’s not what we’re going to get. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n
It didn’t have to be like this. \u00a0We 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. \u00a0Then 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by Republican majorities first in the House, then by both houses, guaranteed to be vetoed by Obama because they simply repealed ObamaCare. \u00a0Why can we not have one of those bills passed now? \u00a0There is great support available for this if these knuckleheads wanted it. \u00a0All they have to say is that no country should be saddled with a bill so large passed by exactly one party. \u00a0Repeal the whole thing and then open debate on how to improve health care from a bipartisan (ugh) position. \u00a0Why not embrace interstate insurance and kiosk medicine? \u00a0Offer the Democrats a hand in crafting some legislation that everybody can get behind?<\/p>\n
Well, there’s no selling this car because there’s no car here. \u00a0The GOP is no more interested in repealing ObamaCare than the democrats are, and in some ways, even less. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0Now 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.<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n
I am not optimistic about this health care bill. \u00a0I am happy that Hillary and Pelosi did not get a license to expand the breach, which would have been truly horrific. \u00a0But when comparing horrors of different magnitude, it is easy to lump it all together\u00a0as just so much gore. \u00a0So my internal risk manager tells me to be grateful. \u00a0Fine, I’m grateful.<\/p>\n
But that does not mean optimistic. \u00a0I don’t wish to make perfect the enemy of good, but I’m hardly insisting upon perfection here. \u00a0All I want is for government to get out of the health care rationing business, and that’s not what we’re going to get. \u00a0The Republicans are likely to get stuck with the failure of this all, and then the next round of … Continue reading