Mr. Brown Goes to Washington, Health Care Goes Out the Window?
January 27th, 2010
We can only hope! I have to admit, I am enjoying the visual I am getting of ole’ Teddy Kennedy rolling over in his grave. Okay, spiteful partisanship over…I’ll focus on meaningful partisanship from here on out!
Well, the Dems are finding themselves in an interesting situation. In the special election last Tuesday in Massachusetts to replace Senator Ted Kennedy, surprisingly, the Republican candidate, Scott Brown was able to defeat Democrat candidate Martha Coakely. Dems are preparing to basically find some way to shove this health care bill down our throats before Brown is seated.
It looks like they have a couple of options:
1. They could just go with the House verison, which pleases the Democratic party more.
2. They could hurry up and reconcile the two versions before Brown is sworn in.
3. Try and talk a Repblican into siding with them - however, that is unlikely.
4. Go for a much scaled back version of the Health care bill - not a popular option amongst Dems, but better than nothing.
The thing that really gets me about a lot of this is that they are not being transparent about any of it, though transparency was promised during the presidential campaign. So much of what they plan to do is unconstiutional - how do you justify taxing everyone but your special interest groups i.e. - the unions?
If this bill passes, everyone will be required to purchase health insurance if you don’t have it - except the Amish and those who have a religious objection to insurance. I agree that the Amish should not be fined, no one should be fined for a legitamate financial choice they have made!
Everyone with a “Cadillac” health inusrance policy (this includes folks that pay for the 90/10 coverage sometimes offered by employers, not just millionaires and union folks) will have to pay an additional tax on thier health insurance, except Union members! This is ridiculous! If people are paying for better coverage, then they have made a financial decision they feel will benefit thier family. They (or their employer) are already paying more!
What is your opinion on this whole health care reform debacle? Are you for it? Why? Are you hoping they cannot manage to reconcile it, and have to junk the whole deal? Polls say 57% of Americans are against this, and 74% don’t think it will work - where is our representative government?
