You Tell Me

If the new health care bill passed by the Democrats is such a great bill, then why has the U.S. Congress exempted themselves from being covered by it? Why did the Capitol Hill staffers who wrote the bill write an exemption for themselves into the bill as well? If it's good enough for us, why is it not good enough for them?

You tell me.

If, as the Democrats tell us repeatedly, the need for health care reform is urgent because many people are dying without access to health care -- well then, why do the major provisions of this bill not begin to take effect until 2013 (conveniently after the 2012 presidential elections). We know people have an urgent need for access to immediate life-saving health care, so we have passed a bill that will cover them in 3 or 4 years, after they're already dead. Apparently the only thing urgent about the health care bill for the Democrats was claiming immediate political victory by passing some bill. Is this really even about helping the uninsured at all?

You tell me.

When asked about the lawsuit that a number of state attorneys general are bringing against ObamaCare for being unconstitutional, the White House domestic policy chief responded by saying, "If you want to look in the face of a parent whose child now has health care insurance and say we're repealing that . . . go right ahead." Hmmm. The only problem with that is that every child in the U.S. is already covered by a government insurance plan called SCHIP, provided that child's family income is under a certain level. That income level is $55,125 or more for a family of four in every state except for five very low-cost-of-living Western states. It is $88,200 in New York and New Hampshire. So is Obama's administration just lying, claiming it's about the children when really the bill does nothing for them? Or does he believe that our tax dollars should pay for children's health insurance when their parents make more than $88,200 per year?

You tell me.

In an interview with ABC News, Vice-President Joe Biden said regarding the health care bill, "You know we're going to control the insurance companies." Democratic Congressman John Dingell said in a radio interview, "The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people." Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings said, ""There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something. . . .All this talk about rules. . . .When the deal goes down . . . we make 'em up as we go along." And then there was the President's elaborate signing ceremony for ObamaCare on Tuesday. After receiving a rock star welcome from the partisan crowd and being introduced by Joe Biden with the words "This is a big f***ing deal," Obama crowed about how he had finally succeeded where his predecessors (he listed them out from Theodore Roosevelt to the Clintons) had failed. Again, is this really about helping the uninsured? Or is this about politicians expanding government power and therefore their own power? Is this about doing what's best for the country? Or is this about using whatever means necessary to pass some bill that will enable them to take credit for "making history" and winning a big political victory?

You tell me.