Health "Reform" - As The Dust Settles

All but the far left (those who hijacked the Democratic party 35 years ago) are now running from Obama’s beast, many of these claiming they never really were fond of the now-infamous "public option" in the first place. Hah! What we have just witnessed folks, that demonstration from the masses that they don't like being taken - a truly magnificent event. There are many features of BO’s bill voters don’t like but the stealth single payer option was too much. Obama’s effort was such an obvious lie that its perfidy palled after it ceased to be amusing. The American people have done a tremendous job in educating their elected leaders of the fact that they have no desire for government-run health care. The unwashed, bless their hearts, knew BO’s attempted end run would do exactly that. Distilled to the core - THEY DON’T WANT RATIONING.

As the dust settles around this issue we find a changed America, both in the general sense, and the specific. As to the first, from the David Brooks Op-Ed column in the NYT’s : "The public has soured on Obama’s policy proposals. Voters often have only a fuzzy sense of what each individual proposal actually does, but more and more have a growing conviction that if the president is proposing it, it must involve big spending, big government and a fundamental departure from the traditional American approach."

As to the second, more and more Americans simply want an improvement on what they’ve got. Few claim we have a problem with the quality of health care for the simple reason that we don't. They do want better insurance prices and better availability - competition for goodness sake will see to that in a jiffy. There are a legion of observers who have suggested ways that the delivery of insurance can be improved (detailed in earlier blogs). And any fool knows that the first step to better cost control is tort reform, always blocked by the Democrats. Don’t take our word for it. Howard Dean, the former chairman of the DNC and an enthusiastic backer of Obama's health reform initiative, gives us this, "The reason that tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everyone else they were taking on," Dean said at a town hall meeting in Virginia last week. Too much.

Sure, the Democrats will try another way to get government between you and your body; they can’t help it. This stuff is pre-programmed in them. Some fear they will be successful. I wouldn’t bet on it.

Robert Craven