We Survived, America Might Not!

Yep, it snowed all day, winds howled like a banshee, and yet we lived through it despite all of the hype that Jerry Bruckheimer could have made an end of the world movie about yesterday's storm.

I watched with unbroken attention as the liberals on The Hill shot down the Slaughter Solution and went with an up or down vote on the Senate bill today. Essentially what they were going to do is vote on a reconciliation bill (all of the changes they wanted to make in the Senate bill) and then deem that the Senate bill had passed without voting on it. Speaker Pelosi would then break out the Senate bill apart from the voted on reconciliation bill and send it to President Obama to be signed into law. A clear violation of The Constitution Article I section 7. (free app on the iPhone, carry it with me all the time now)

This decision avoided tons of lawsuits and challenges which would void the bill in court. Unless it wound up in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals it would be struck down instantly.

Ok just to be fair here I'm going to post this summation of the HCB from a liberal site. They break down the myths and facts from a liberal viewpoint. I'd like to point out that neither side is happy with this bill which is why it should be started over.

I particularly like this tidbit from the bill.

"The bill will impose a financial hardship on middle class Americans who will be forced to buy a product that they can’t afford to use.

A family of four making $66,370 will be forced to pay $5,243 per year for insurance. After basic necessities, this leaves them with $8,307 in discretionary income — out of which they would have to cover clothing, credit card and other debt, child care and education costs, in addition to $5,882 in annual out-of-pocket medical expenses for which families will be responsible."

When I say I like this tidbit I mean to say that if you support this bill and don't know what you like about it then you deserve to be stuck with it. So instead of finding ways to reduce the cost of private insurance for families they instead mandate you must carry it OR pay a fine of 2% of your annual income. Congratulations on your victory today as it will seemingly pass The House today.

Health care is something that needs desperate reform, no one disagrees but to tax families who are struggling as it is in this economy with gas prices that are nearing three dollars per gallon, high unemployment, and a meandering focus on the economy.

Reforms like interstate competition and choice are no where in this bill.

Now if you are like me and already have good if not great insurance then we are faced with this, "The excise tax will result in employers switching to plans with higher co-pays and fewer covered services.
Older, less healthy employees with employer-based health care will be forced to pay much more in out-of-pocket expenses than they do now."

Hardly compassionate, wouldn't you agree?

I'm just saying, if you celebrate today because this monstrosity passes then you are misinformed about what is being voted on.