Will Healthcare Die Because Obama Lied Again?

Posted on | February 21, 2010 | No Comments

By Xelan Bonn (Feb 21, 2010) www.xelanbonn.com

In the original and current version of the House Healthcare Bill (page 24-26), Nancy Pelosi designates that the healthcare Czar that oversees the new healthcare system (if created in her vision) will have the unilateral authority to raise premiums (taxes), cut (ration) services if and when the system finds itself short of funds. In short, one person will control the lives and healthcare of 300 million Americans (except members of the House, Senate, and White House and select union workers and states that are exempt because the system is not good enough for them).

When Pelosi participated in drafting the bill behind closed doors, she knowingly agreed to, and forwarded, this highly unconstitutional bill, even though she knew full well she and others in the Dem Party were breaking the law and committing felonious conspiracy, as well as misfeasance. She also knew nobody would ever charge her with a crime because members of both houses have been getting away with such constitutional attacks and breeches for decades. However, she underestimated one thing—the American people and members of her own party. The bill died but she avoided being investigated by the FBI (for perhaps the 100th time now).

Today, President Obama is also underestimating the American people on healthcare. He says he wants bipartisan assistance to create something of benefit for America, but what he means is that he wants a second chance to sell his unconstitutional, socialized medicine crap-bucket to the American people instead—you see, he just has not explained it well enough, he says. “We just don’t get it yet!”

Instead, what Republicans and the American people want is very simple—the truth, lots of transparency in the process, and true bipartisanship that restores checks and balances to the system of government while keeping government out of the lives of citizens and their healthcare—yet still makes significant cost cuts while, hopefully, increasing coverage for all. This is doable with presidential leadership and truth-telling. This is not doable otherwise. Otherwise will likely prevail.

The Dems, lead by the inexperienced Obama, will likely do the American people and themselves another great disservice on healthcare in the coming months by simply not keeping their word—again! Rather than find a compromise position on at least a few aspects where both sides agree, such as increasing insurance competition across state lines, requiring that all insurers carry those with pre-existing conditions, and other aspects, they will instead demand the moon and never get it.

By not compromising, Dems will lose face even more with the American people and will fail to get a healthcare bill passed that: 1) would have helped cut costs for many Americans, 2) would have been more likely to be Constitutional, and 3) would have been a much needed political victory Dems could have used in the coming midterm elections. Obama will miss a golden opportunity to practice what he preaches and in the end, he will ensure a landslide takedown of the progressive-socialist Dem party—that most Americans by now are fed up with and want as far away from the seats of power as possible—but could have so easily taken a different road.

The recipe for healthcare bill success is simple:

1. Scrap all previous healthcare bills to date.

2. Break the process into smaller units with individual goals. For example, agree to a series of simplified, multiple bill goals (i.e. Bill “A” is goaled with reducing healthcare costs for as many Americans as possible. Bill “B” is goaled with getting most uninsured Americans covered or provided for as may be possible).

3. Start on the easiest bill goal to achieve in a bipartisan approach (i.e. Bill “A”).

4. Open the entire process to CSPAN completely (no closed doors ever).

5. Give Republicans 50% of the time and respect to be heard and ply their options and ideas and amendments.

6. Give the American people plenty of time to chime in and read any and all proposals (weeks of time for online review, not days or hours).

7. Start off by quickly finding common ground items that both parties already agree on to some extent and put those on the table for the new bill proposal—then begin work on items that are more controversial.

8. Set a reasonable timeline in which to pass the bill (the items everyone agrees on), and then agree to revisit the issue later on items that still have not been hashed out and agreed on (take a break and go work on something more constructive for a while).

In this process, some progress can be made instead of none at all. This process, however, has a few things against it: 1) it’s common sense and too easy, 2) it’s not in line with the Dem goals and objectives to affect socialized medicine in an all or nothing bid, 3) and Obama has not yet ever kept any campaign promises so why should we expect to believe he is suddenly sincerely now!

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