Tuesday, March 27, 2012

A simple argument for the Affordable Health Care Act.


Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and Alito appear to be against it.  So, it must be good.

I just hope Kennedy has the cojones to break from the pack of four and vote for what’s right for America.

So here is the logic breakdown I don’t get. If you are going to drive a car on our public roads, it must meet Federal Highway Safety Standards.  That means air bags and seat belts and a certain amounts of lights and other safety devices, as well as emission controls. That’s before you ever turn it on. You want to use a car on the road? It’s got to do these things mandated by the Federal Government.  That is the law.  In the states it gets even more controlling. Must wear a seat belt, must have a license. Must have insurance and the car must be licensed and inspected and so on and so forth.  Those are state laws.  Mandates.

We live with it and go about our business and no one is yelling that is socialism. It is just a practical way to manage our ever-growing traffic chaos.

Now, if you want to use the healthcare system in America, the government says you must have insurance.

I do not see the difference in logic.

To take part in a public system, you must obey certain rules and regulations.  We’ve done it forever.  Why now is it so devise?

Here’s why.  It is what America needed and the political right is mad that they didn’t get the legislation passed on their watch.  It was, after all, a Republican bill. ObamaCare came out of the Republican think tanks in conjunction with Big Insurance and the AMA to keep us away from socialized medicine. It started under President Reagan. President Obama saw that it was good and pushed it forward and now the right is furious.  They are calling him every name in the book and their logic is “You can’t mandate what people do. Not in America.”

 Really?

We’ve been doing it for years.

Try this: drive without a license, don’t have insurance and take the tags off your car.  When you are stopped declare the ticket you get unconstitutional.  See how far you get in traffic court.

Good luck.

Affordable Health Care for America is a good thing. It is the right and just thing for our country to do. Requiring people to carry insurance is a necessity, to make sure everyone is enrolled and covered. And it was the insurance industry’s idea. Not Obama’s.

Here’s my prediction:  the vote is going to be 5 to 4.  And it all depends on how Justice Kennedy votes. See you this summer and keep your fingers crossed.





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