Fight Against Government Control of Health Care is Just Beginning

Obamacare has passed, and health care reform will be, at least temporarily, a reality. But the fight is coming. Some might ask why anyone would be against "affordable health care for everyone, regardless of income." The answers are simple.

Americans understand that you cannot lower the price of a product or service, and that is what health care is, without lowering its quality or availability. As engineers say, you can have it work, have it cheap, or have it now...pick two. You cannot say that the health care available to someone with really good insurance, who makes for example $50k a year, must be exactly the same as that available to someone with no insurance and a $20k a year income without changing the parameters of health care. That is what Obamacare is going to do. It must lower the quality and availability of health care in order to "spread the wealth," as the president loves saying so much.

Imagine that a Sony television costs $2000, but only some people can afford it. Now the government wants all people to have "affordable" televisions regardless of income or credit rating. You either have to subsidize everyone who cannot afford a $2000 television (which the government will do with health care...at first), or you must lower the cost of the television (which government must do if it is to realize savings, as Obama and Pelosi claim will happen). If government forces Sony to produce a $500 television to replace the more expensive model, does anyone really believe that television will be just as good as the $2000 model? The answer is of course not. Yet health care "reform" proponents expect us to believe that very thing about health care. That is why the word "quality" is missing from "affordable health care for everyone, regardless of income." You can have affordable, quality, or "for everyone"...pick two.

Americans also understand that the bill just passed by the House is a government takeover of health care. Just because there is no public option or single payer system included in the health care bill, it doesn't mean the government will not be running health care. The word "shall" appears 4231 times in the health care bill. How can a 2,409 page document containing the word "shall" 4231 times not constitute government control? The health care bill also contains the word "tax" or a variation such as "taxable" or "taxpayer" 583 times, and "internal revenue code" 116 times. Did we really need to bring the IRS into this and change the tax code 116 times? Not unless the government plans on asserting serious power.

All this is contrary to the American spirit, which is predicated on individual liberty and opportunity. Americans loath Big Government, which deserves the title far more than Big Oil or Big Tobacco, for a reason. While no American likes to be penniless and without health care, that same American wants the opportunity to be rich and buy all the health care they want; they also know they don't want Big Government standing in the way of them getting there. And that is what Big Government does every time, and without pity or care for the cost to the people it hurts. Americans tried to explain that to their elected officials, but they were ignored, laughed at, dismissed and in many cases directly insulted. Americans' representatives spat on them. Now there will be a reckoning.

First there will be legal battles. Already states like Florida, Texas, Utah and others are planning to sue to overturn this horrendous violation of the Constitution. How well they will fare is up for grabs, as liberal Federal judges often side with the government over the Constitution.

Next there will be even more legal battles as states pass laws barring the Federal government from dictating to their citizens. Big Government cannot tolerate dissent, and it will attack. That attack will be a legal one, but if the states refuse to comply, what next? Federal troops have been used to enforce Federal mandates before, and they will most assuredly be used to do so again.

Then we have the November elections. The left wing media will assault the conservative movements, such as the Tea Party, in every way possible to assist Democrats in their efforts to lie and conceal the true nature of health care reform. Still, it is a safe bet that Democrats will pay a price for ignoring the voters and imposing their will upon us, instead of imposing our will on the legislation. How big a price they pay remains to be seen?

The line is about to be crossed. When President Obama signs the Senate health care bill into law, America will no longer be a free nation.

Americans will not tolerate that. Just ask the British.