America, brace for impact! The conservative tide is rising, and it’s no longer safe for shoreline politicians. A wave of repeal is rolling in, and the options are set sail and ride the tide or stay ashore to be swept away. Yet, there are two important questions regarding repeal: is it right, and is it enough?
Is it right? This is, perhaps, the most important question involving repeal, but the answer starts with a different question: Is the health-care overhaul wrong for America? Definitely. The overhaul bill addresses the rising cost of health care from the wrong angle. To reduce the cost of a product you must either increase supply or decrease demand, or both. The health care overhaul decreases supply with proposals to tax the companies and individuals who provide health care while subsequently scaling back their pay. These changes limit the ability of providers to offer health-care, reducing supply. At the same time, increasing the amount of insured people (whether they want it or not) and offering “free” preventative care will increase demand.
Economically, this bill stands to increase the cost of health care, not decrease it. Yet, economics aren’t the only negative aspect of this bill. This bill strikes at one of the very core tenets of our nation: liberty. For the first time in history, the government will require by law that all citizens purchase a product from a private company. This government control over private industry is a concept which, as a nation, we have been at war with for half a century or more.
Clearly, repeal is the correct goal. The bill does the opposite of its stated intention by implementing changes that will increase the cost of health care. The bill goes against fundamental aspects of America. So, is repeal enough? The short answer is no.
Repeal of this bill is a call to something far greater in America: the repeal of big government. Government has grown beyond the intentions of our founding fathers, and we the people must rein it in. We the people must get a grip on government, and it starts with this bill. Twice American is first remembering what made us great, and then steering the ship back in the right direction.
We are all Twice American; first by right, then by choice as we commit to live by the American spirit. I am Twice American; I know the truth of American prosperity. I believe in life, liberty, and our right to pursue happiness. Help me in November to renew the Great American Experiment. We the people will remind the world what true freedom looks like.
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Well said Lee. It is very important to show that Republicans mean what they say about Obamacare. If they truly believe that it is a threat to limited, constitutional government, to free markets, and to American health care, then they need to work toward its repeal.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest problem with American health care today, and the primary obstacle to all principled reforms to it, is the specter of Obamacare. House Republicans need to build unity in their conference behind a repeal resolution, and then take the fight to the Democrats.