Op-ed:

The House is up to bat...let the game begin

By: Diane Sori

 

ObamaCare has been called by many the worst piece of legislation ever passed in modern American history.

Knowing they must NEVER allow our best in the world American healthcare system to become a carbon copy of Europe’s socialist healthcare system, on July 11^th the House will take up the issue of a full repeal of that ‘worst piece of legislation ever passed’ thanks to Chief Justice Roberts’ ruling that ObamaCare is indeed a TAX.  And they will do it because they know that if they don’t get this monstrosity repealed this is precisely what will happen.

The White House and some libertard Democrats still refuse to admit that ObamaCare is a tax (the mother of all TAXES in fact) because they know to admit it means they knew it all along.  They knew all along that ObamaCare penalizes by fines those who refuse to purchase health insurance, and they are not happy campers knowing that Roberts called their bluff on this when he ruled ObamaCare was permissible but only under the congressional power to levy taxes clause instead of the personal mandate that Obama wanted.

Now House Republicans don’t have to waste their precious time trying to salvage the very few popular aspects (like the pre-existing condition clause and the kids can stay on their parents insurance until they’re 26 clause) in ObamaCare but can repeal the entire blasted thing in one fell swoop, and then work to replace it with a new health care law that is fair and just for all Americans...all LEGAL Americans that is, with NO free ride for government employees and ILLEGALS, and with NO special exemptions for ‘certain’ groups (and we all know which groups those are).

“What Americans want is a common-sense, step-by-step approach to health care reform…” said House Speaker John Boehner, and he is so right.  We Americans do NOT want to be told what we can and cannot do in regards to our own personal health issues, and we don’t want to be told what we must buy...or else!

Obama has yet to realize that blackmailing ‘We the People’ has never worked before and it sure isn’t going to work now.

Speaker Boehner also said that ObamaCare is a complete government takeover of the health insurance industry and again he is right.  Obama wants the federal government to have the power to take over what for the most part is a private industry but have that private industry do his dirty work for him.  And that is something that ‘We the People’ must NOT allow him to do.  Our health care system is and hopefully will stay a mixture of private ‘if we choose to purchase it’ insurance with most importantly limited government involvement with ‘limited’ being the key word...as in we sure as hell don’t want the feds butting into any of our personal business, period.

It’s almost a given that the repeal will be successful in the Republican controlled House, and using a fast-track legislative process known as ‘reconciliation’ in the Senate, that will enable a simple 51 member majority to pass the repeal instead of the usual 60 votes needed to repeal a bill.  And while a regular Senate bill can be slowed down by a single Senator and blocked by 41 Senators, this will NOT be the case with the ObamaCare bill because the reconciliation process is allowed to be used in matters relating to taxes.

And ObamaCare is a TAX...so says the United States Supreme Court whether Barack Hussein Obama likes it or not.

So the game is back on and hopefully the House will hit the ball out of the park as the start towards the hoped for total repeal of the monstrosity known as ObamaCare begins.