It struck me yesterday, that there is a good reason that a good majority of elected officials have law degrees. Last night I sat down again and tried to read a little further into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as HR 3590, or the new Health Care Program, or Obama Care). My head was hurting from reading the legalistic terminology. You had to be a lawyer to turn understand/appreciate how this was written. Your average person would not have a clue what they were reading. A prime example of this was when I first started reading this a while back. In the opening pages of the Act, they said (in lawyer terminology) that heath insurance companies would not be allowed to set “unreasonable annual limits” on the payout of benefits. They then went on to say that “unreasonable annual limits” was defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Now I am sure none of you have read the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, but I will say that I took a look at it. Needless to say, I spent a good half hour to an hour trying to figure out exactly what “unreasonable annual limits” were. In the end, I still do not know. I gave up and decided that if I was ever going to read this thing completely, I would have to just assume that the person who wrote this knew what they were talking about and move on. Since then I have had to make that assumption dozens of times, and I am still not fished reading this thing (because I do have a job after all).
So after reading for bit yesterday, it occurred to me that it is very unlikely that any of our elected officials have read and truly understand what is in this bill. After all, the current bill is 2409 pages long. And this scares me beyond compare. If our elected officials do not know what they are voting on, why are they trying to pass this? From what I have ready there are many flaws in this program. And as I thought about that, while listening to a clip of Ronald Regan www.bit.ly/9txVgR speaking about the evils of socialized medicine, it occurred to me that this all boils down to a quote from Norman Thomas, a man who ran for President several times on the Socialist ticket. He said,
“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
Ronald Regan warned us back in 1961 of this. True he was referring to Medicare at the time, but if you listen to the recording www.bit.ly/9txVgR you will be shocked at how similar it is to today’s fight.
I think the efforts of former Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee are to be commended in this fight. He has started a petition to “Scrap the Bill” http://tinyurl.com/y8q542v . I am not sure what real effect it will have (I have signed it) but the sentiment is correct. THIS BILL IS WRONG FOR AMERICA. The bi-partisan support is not there for a reason. We need to start over and all sit down and try to rework a health care fix that does what the American people want, not what some Washington Liberals want.
As the recording of Ronald Regan finished up he quoted Former Representative Halleck of Indiana as saying
“When the American people want something from Congress, regardless of its political complexion, if they make their wants known, Congress does what the people want.”Though there are several clips of our elected officials (all liberal democrats) saying they will force this bill through regardless of what the people they represent want, I can only hope that in the end, they will listen to you America. Stand up. Tell them that this bill is wrong. Tell them to start over and if they do not, tell them by way of your vote, that you do not represent me anymore.
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