How Big a GOP?
Rick Moran: How the implementation of ObamaCare will make the GOP a majority party.
Rick makes some very good points, and I found myself nodding along most of the time. Especially when you think of how ObamaCare will require your doctor to ask you about tons of things unrelated to your visit (or to your health) and then report your answers to some bureaucrat in DC, raising the painintheassitude of simply trying to get some codeine cough syrup.
So maybe, yes, people rise up in a massive Health Care Revolt of 2016, to mirror the great Tax Revolt of 1979.
But what does the GOP do? Will it take a bold stand for dismantling this monstrosity? Or will it trim ObamaCare’s rougher edges, for a kinder, gentler democratic tyranny?
The GOP has some soul-searching to do between now and then.
A revolt over health care just will not happen. Here is a history lesson: Soc. Sec. was implemented in 1935 and as late as the 1950′s the Republican Party wanted to repeal it as socialistic experiment. Eisenhower and Robert Taft went head to head in 1952. Taft wanted to repeal Soc. Sec. and Eisnhower vowed to keep it. I think history will repeat itself. Obama to his genius expanded the Democratic base and will set the social agenda for thenedt 75 years – just as FDR did in the ’30s and LBJ did in the 60′s. Accept it and live with it. If the Rep’s can make it better, put ideas on the table.
All the best,
bob
Well, the analogy breaks down because SS was at the beginning of the decades-long cascade of free-stuff. The economic system was better able to absorb the hit back then – in contrast, Obamacare may be the tipping point, the straw (or truckload of cinderblocks) that finally breaks the camel’s back.
That is, if social security doesn’t break the camel’s back FIRST. SS once had 30 or so people paying in for every one taking out as opposed to the current 3 to 1, and is now cash flow negative approximately a decade ahead of schedule.
Perhaps. When Obamacare’s restrictions on supply kick in, the quality and availability of health care will decline, and those who can afford it will begin to transition over to a parallel high-quality cash-basis system. The question will then become whether Americans will be willing to dump the subsidized system and transition over to the cash-basis system, or will they vote for the guy who promises to punish the fat cats who are getting health care while Americans wait in line?
I’m not sure anymore of the answer to that question.
“The GOP has some soul-searching to do between now and then.”
…or risk going the way of the Federalists, Whigs and Reform parties.
There, FTFY.
From this point forward, the only time a Republican gets my vote is if he/she is a confirmed and dedicated fiscal conservative, with absolutely no history of taking a stand on SoCon issues. That way lies madness.
Otherwise, it’s Libertarian down the line. Only an absolute commitment to dismantling the Federal Beast will get my interest, and vote.
In a logical, reasonable world I would agree. However, the Democrats have the MSM on their side and plenty of “low information voters” that they can advertise to. All the Democrats have to do is have the MSM shrilly cry out that the evil Republicans will take away all the free stuff that the people depend on from the government.
Moran may be right — but counting on it would be extremely stupid.
And a Doctor I like will get the answer “none of your business”. A Doctor who hasn’t accumulated that good will will get “none of your f’ing business.”
All of them will get “that’s none of your business, stop wasting my time” for the second and any further such questions.
The AMA backed ObamaCare. When Doctors decide to throw out the AMA’s “leadership”, and replace it w/ worthwhile human beings, then they’ll stop getting that kind of abuse from me.