Health Bill Passes House in Unhealthiest Manner Possible

The House of Representatives doesn’t trust you.  Or at least a majority of its members don’t.  While you already knew that, it’s useful to confirm that 220 of them were willing to vote based on said reservations.  That’s true even if it took passage of a supremely patronizing, financially crippling bill that creates a phalanx of bureaucratic overlords to get the register of names.

They want to take charge of your health care, which is only a big deal if you believe you should be liable for your own destiny.  But a high percentage of House Democrats are opposed to you and your decision-making capabilities.  You may, however, continue to pay for the privilege of having life choices made for you.  That aspect will actually remain compulsory.

The big news is that abortion is out of the plan.  Maybe.  What’s mysterious is why it was in there in the first place.  How did we get to the point that there’s an actual debate on whether abortion is health care?  And why don’t abortion enthusiasts start a private charity to fund what they view as their noblest cause: free pregnancy terminations?

Congress may attempt to weasel abortion subsidies back into the legislation before this ends.  Call me cynical.  So anyway, after that happens, it won’t be enough to feel horrified that the practice is legal: you’ll also fund them if Nancy Pelosi’s ultimate vision for your health is realized, whether directly or in a roundabout manner that’s supposed to assuage your conscience.   We face the looming threat of buying a reprehensible procedure for anybody who wants one, and yet conservatives are the ones caricatured as wanting to legislate morality.

It demonstrates the core problem with any effort to cede any more control of the health system to Washington: other people’s issues morph into everyone’s issues.  It’s the opposite of volunteering to sign up with a private insurer.  Instead of let us willingly get covered after assessing the benefits and risks, House Democrats want to force everyone into a group that includes all those you see at casino buffets or in an Aldi.

For one, smokers with Cajun-style lungs used to be hurting only themselves.  But if someone contracts cancer under Democraticare, it would be everyone’s problem- and expense.  Further, it turns out that those who advocate compelling fast food eateries and ice cream pint manufacturers to put caloric information on their products were simply out to reduce the hive’s health care expenses.  Destroying joy was only the initial step.

But the tradeoff is that millions of uninsured Americans will be on a health plan, even though it won’t actually happen at all.  Set aside that it’s not anyone else’s duty to ensure we’re all insured; we used to call such a notion “personal responsibility,” although that phrase probably qualifies as hate speech today.

More importantly, universal coverage is the most impractical goal ever since the same people decided that the stimulus was the only way to conquer unemployment.   This time, Pelosi and Company are creating or saving a daft utopian dream that is only considered doable by people who cried when Chicago didn’t get the Olympics.

Congress may as well vote in favor of full employment, too: it’s similarly as practical as it is desirable.  While they’re at it, they can additionally make it mandatory that each of us lives according to our ability while each of us receives according to respective need.  Of course, such a comparison is total hyperbole based only upon the words and actions of a President and Speaker who think a new regulation will instantly end the coverage dearth.

Most importantly, they want us to be exactly like the rest of the industrialized world and have the government care for us, as we’ve been told a sickening number of times.  But we don’t want to be like the rest of the industrialized world: that’s why we’re here.

Regardless, the current power party is characteristically attempting to remedy a non-illness.  Barack Obama and Pelosi want to convert us into a European Union branch office.  We’d almost be like a colony, although they wouldn’t approve of such imperialist language.

The good and bad news is that there’s a little less than one year left of this.  Despite a smile even more forced than usual the day after the election, Pelosi knows that her reign will end around this time in 2010.  If she’s looked into her cauldron in private, she knows the future is grim for both leftist policies and politicians who embrace them.  Yes, it’s a witch joke.

That’s why she’s accelerating her miserable agenda.  But we know when the electric motor that’s propelling her feeble power trip will run out of juice.  That means we just have to first pressure senators and then both sides if they got to the stage of conjuring the final bill.  You can do so by asking your elected officials which they prefer: 1) compelling us to go bankrupt in order to fund IRS-inspired health care, or 2) having a job.

Next, look forward to voting based upon each respective elected official’s answer.  All we have to do is hold out until next November 2.  Taking care to forcefully oppose this most monolithic of bills now means we can get back to taking care of ourselves.  It beats hoping that we should place our well-being in the hands of the same government that’s in charge of the swine flu vaccine.

Anthony Bialy is a freelance writer and “Red Eye” Conservative in Western New York.  He blogs at http://thebuffalobean.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/AnthonyBialy.

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