You oppose this bill because it doesn't completely eliminate all government involvement in the health care industry. That is a position that literally no person in position of authority, nor anyone with a realistic chance of assuming authority, holds, and a position that has no chance of becoming official policy.
I oppose the bill because it is NOT what the GOP promised if we would but give them the House and the Senate and the Presidency. I oppose the bill because it simply transfers ownership of Statism to the GOP and permanently cements Socialism as our ideological form of government.
This bill reduces government involvement in the industry by removing mandates and loosening restrictions it imposed.
I do not want it 'reduced' - I want it gone, as they all promised. Some of us are not ignorant of history and we full-well understand that leaving any part of this Obamanation intact, makes it a permanent agency and program of the federal Beast. As Reagan said, it is the closest thing to eternal life we will see on this earth. The longer it remains, the more permanent it becomes and the more it will grow and be added to.
You either cut out the cancer completely - or it comes back with a greater vengeance and kills the patient altogether. This particular cancer infects every major organ of liberty, and leaving any of it in the system will kill any liberty that remains.
Period.
End of sentence.
The alternative is no change.
The alternative it to let it collapse as it was designed to do, and prepare the private market to take over fill the void that the ACA invaded in the first place.
This is, literally, a dilemma. You are either for it or against it.
I am against anything that leaves Socialism intact or in place, no matter the amount. Root and branch - that is what they promised to do in removing it. I expect that promise to be fulfilled.
Anybody with a basic, elementary school knowledge of math can tell that passing the bill gets one closer to your goal than not passing it.
Show me one government entitlement that has ever been shrunk and eliminated.
Regardless of whether the bill passes or not, the chances of reaching your goal (again, zero) do not change.
I have no faith that the government will reduce itself or the power and control over everything in life that they seek to 'manage'. It's all kabuki theater. Reintroduce the bills they presented in 2015 and pass those, as those were exactly what they promised to do.
If anything, as people get used to less government in the health care system, it might even make them more willing to take another step toward that goal in the future.
There is nothing in recent history to give any credence to that supposition beyond wishful thinking. In fact, just the opposite is true. People will always choose a hand-out and a subsidy over providing for themselves. People want MORE government involvement, not less.
If you are fine with tilting at windmills and letting Obamacare stand on principle, then you should have no problem still tilting at windmills if this bill passes as well.
The best we can do is keep moving, keep pushing, take every opportunity we can get, even if it is partial.
I consider that to be nothing more than practicing insanity. When the GOP is promoting better managed socialism - it is become self evident that absolutely no moving, pushing or opportunity to move into a Conservative direction has happened despite all the promises and pleas to take what breadcrumbs we can manage to beg for.
We either throw off these bonds of Statism and Socialism now, or we will be subjugated by them.
