PJM Political 12/18/10: ObamaCare on the Ropes?
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Join host Stephen Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look at DC and beyond:
- Steve interviews Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on the machinations of Congress and the Senate this past week and the recent judicial decision against President Obama’s healthcare reforms.
- Glenn Reynolds talks with Peter Suderman of Reason magazine about ObamaCare, the Courts, and the Law of Unintended Consequences.
- Taken from PJTV’s weekly Trifecta show, Steve Green, along with Alfonzo Rachel and Scott Ott of Scrappleface discuss the “No Labels” movement, the new centrist/center-left competitor to the Tea Party, and for the flipside, Steve talks with retired Navy aviator Frantz Kebreau about why he joined the Tea Party, and why his pro-freedom speeches have been blocked.
- Allen Barton of PJTV talks with Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute, and Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily on “Hauser’s Law” and how it impacts DC budget planning with William Kurt Hauser, the San Francisco investment economist who postulated in the 1990s that “No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar America, tax revenues have remained at about 19.5% of GDP.”
- Produced by Ed Driscoll.
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Keep in mind that Obamacare is on the books. AND ALL lawyers, e.g. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama, All the Kennedys, the Clintons, John Kerry and ALL other lawyers in the USA, in or out of government KNOW it is far easier to make law than it is to repeal law. THE reason to avoid permission
for legislature to enact law, ANY LAW without clear ends and effects.
DO NOT RELY ON REPEAL.
But what a great start – and remember Nov 2010 has to be seen only as a start – to a new era in government if this thing can be repealed or starved.
I have unfortunately two people in my life with dire medical issues. One has private insurance and the other is on Medicare. I spend a lot of time sitting and waiting and observing our health care system and have two observations:
1) the health care system as it exists today is actually quite remarkable and almost every Hospital, ER, Clinic that I have experienced runs pretty well even though, as private sector businesses go, these are complex, competitive and hectic. While there are some things that can really try your patience, in the end I find myself thinking of how much good creative work has been done to make these institutions work as well as they do.
2) If you think of a patient as a work order going through a factory, there is a stark and disturbing difference if you have a “Medicare” sticker on your forehead as you travel through the system. I think this is because, on top of the normal difficulty and stress of being a health care provider, everyone knows and resents that they will not be adequately paid for this type of patient. This in a nutshell is what is wrong with Obamacare. The free market can’t work and no one will be happy.
When you think about it, if Obama-Pelosi only wanted to provide health care to those who can’t afford it, they could have proposed a voucher system, tort reform and a few other things that have been well listed here and elsewhere. Then the more needy among us could just go into the private system like anyone else -no government intrusion, no patient stigma. To imagine our health care facilities run by or under the direction of bureaucrats is, well, unimaginable.
The problem with Obamacare is that it reinforces a system that is, in fact, failing, at least here in New Jersey. The problem is that medicine never should have been turned into an “industry”, it has NEVER been a proper market and it certainly should NEVER have had the insurance albatross tied around its neck. After destroying all of the municipal (general) hospitals and most of the charity hospitals, including the one where my grandfather performed his operations and where I was born, health insurance is now causing dozens of hospitals to close here in New Jersey. Medicine will NEVER be reformed and, in fact, will NOT BE SAVED in this country until HEALTH INSURANCE IS ABOLISHED! That is the cold, hard truth.
And, yes, I will probably end up in jail because I absolutely REFUSE to buy that SCAM, that BILL OF GOODS called “health insurance” and I will not pay a fee, a fine, a tax or whatever Obama calls it on account of that refusal.