Is the GOP Sure They Want To Go? Really?
By Wes Keene | February 23, 2010 | In Category: Health Care
The GOP is being coerced into showing up to the latest in a year long saga of health care discussions. These Democrats are getting awfully desperate. Some of them know how to read a calendar and they realize there is less than a gestation period before their hour of reckoning. One would think that fact would make them lay off the health care takeover…but no.
Obama’s White House published their first actual health care plan on Monday. It was a ‘greatest hits’ of things wrong with the Senate and House bills. The eerie checking account monitoring business from the House bill made it in, the abortion language from the Senate made it in. It has the goofy health insurance “exchange” (lots of people call such an exchange “google” or a “telephone”). It has Jimmy Carter style wage and price controls. How did that work out in the 70′s exactly? I wasn’t alive for some of it. I hear it wasn’t good.
There is little in the way of compromise to be reached here. The Democrat plans (all 3 of them now), all focus on these areas:
- More rules for private companies who provide insurance
- Price controls for insurance companies
- Big government structures to monitor health care usage (allegedly for fraud detection)
- Widening the tax gap between rich and poor (ask California how that policy is working out)
- State Medicaid funding changing (mostly increases for the near term)
- Mandatory coverage for individuals
- Bans on catastrophic-only plans
The list goes on. Where can there be room to negotiate with a plan like that? For too long, the GOP has been the party of “yes”. They go along with bad ideas because liberal pundits and liberal pollsters tell them Americans won’t tolerate the GOP not playing ball with Democrats.
It’s complete non-sense. The plan was bad a year ago, it’s a bad plan today, and it’s going to be a bad plan Thursday. But the GOP members will tuck their tails between their legs and meet Obama, on his terms, with his allies, and his plan. They need to get this through their very thick heads: There is no victory with Obama. Republicans cannot possibly win this fight. The only winner in this game is the person who refuses to play. Your winnings come in November when you get to keep your job.
Enough already. Heck, take a page from Nancy Reagan, just say “no”.
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