[TheRealThing]

House Dems taunted Republicans after they passed the bill on healthcare, chanting goodbye as if the Republicans had just assured themselves loss of the House majority. But this isn't 1993 and a liberal named Bill Clinton is not President. And if the Senate can get their act together and pass the measure, folks will soon realize they're better off.


I see passage of the bill as an improvement not a reversal of the ACA as signed in 2010, and for the present ObamaCare is still the law. Dems claim that 24 million Americans depend on ObamaCare. The truth is of that claimed number, the vast majority are in the Medicaid expansion which is totally taxpayer funded, and north of 84% of the rest of them receive some sort of government provided subsidy or they likely would not be part of the equation at all. In other words, the government forces other people to pay for these folks' health care. If anywhere near 24 million people are involved, there's no wonder why reforming ACA is such a headache. How does one hide such an immense taxpayer outlay and still lower premiums? I can see where that would be an extremely daunting task. Once the Dems rammed ACA through taxpayers were royally had anyway, not to mention how the last administration pulled out every trick in the political hat and spent billions in advertising and bribes to get people to sign up.

I have always said I believed the push for universal health care was more of a social reckoning (tuned to the liberal palate) than any act of compassion. The middle class have been largely gutted, because as far as I can tell the rash of mortgage re-fi's over the past decade stand in testament to a lack of personal savings accounts. And the really bad news? There's nothing left for middle class taxpayers to hock, and government is still demanding more tax dollars to dole out. Sources vary, but 80% of working Americans now live from paycheck to paycheck. Any little hiccup and it's a budget busting disaster. Thus, they pay their crushing health insurance premiums but only because they have to. And when they get sick or some other health related issue pops up, they many times decide not to go to the doctor because they simply do not have the money to cover the whopping shortfalls.

Health reform, tax reform, and regulatory roll-back are all that are necessary to guarantee the Republicans will be returned to the majority in 2018. But never underestimate the liberal propensity for self delusion, as they have clearly been in a state of denial since at least 2010. I don't know maybe Dems think they're at a basketball game, but I say go ahead and sing. I know how I'll be voting and it certainly won't be for some Dimmocrat. nicker: