Well, there will be some legal challenges, and it has to go back through the Senate, etc…but essentially it passed. You can see how people voted(and for reconciliation), here. Can it be repealed? Maybe, but probably not soon. Politics is slow, and also – how often have any entitlement programs been repealed? There are good reasons to be despondent over that idea. This is what change looks like- trickery, obfuscation, and budgetary tomfoolery. As always when big legislation is passed, we get to see some truths revealed:As if you needed any more evidence: the Democrats are socialists, who have little concern for what the rest of the American people think. Religiously socialist ideals trump all – the rest of the world, facts, costs, budgets, deficits, history, the economy, the rules… everything else be damned.
Democrats are corrupt as anything. They resisted all attempts to strip the bill of its bribes and kickbacks – which are still in the bill. And then they joked about it.
You cannot be a Democrat and be pro-life as a plank of your agenda. Once again we’ve seen that they’re the party of death, not just pro-choice, but pro-abortion. Not only did Stupak vote against his supposed platform for a few bribes – he actually rallied against the amendment that has his name on it, earning a stripping of his “Defender of Life” title.
What does this mean for America? Well, Democrats seized the power they’ve been drooling over since FDR – the ultimate socialist entitlement program, enforced by the IRS. Now they’ll feel even more empowered to entirely ignore the rest of the American public. It was never about healthcare. Now we have immediate tax increases, all sorts of economic ramifications (none good), and a whole host of government growth, corruption and power seizure. And in the end, the reform will fail, because socialism always fails. The economics demand it. The nanny state will increasingly give way to the bully state.
And remember: the health care supporters WANT us all to be fascists about people’s health. To any health care supporters: I plan to be.
