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The Health Care Wars to Come

By Doug Bandow on 3.18.10 @ 9:20AM

Fred Barnes warns that ObamaCare, if it passes, is only the beginning. Writes Barnes:

America will be in a constant health-care war if ObamaCare is enacted. Passage wouldn't end the health-care debate. Rather, it would perpetuate ObamaCare as the dominant issue for decades to come, reshape politics, create an annual funding crisis in Congress, and generate a spate of angry lawsuits. Yet few in Washington seem aware of what lies ahead.

The people who will most benefit are the political fund-raisers!

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Ken (Old Texican)| 3.18.10 @ 11:41AM

Doug,
Mr. Barnes is sounding very Polly-Anna in my opinion.
As I stated yesterday, I don't believe the tax-payers of this country will stand for government health insurance...period.

After some good policy wonks see the actual bill, if passed, and begin dissecting it honestly, I foresee the biggest civil disobedience movement our country has ever experienced.

Goodness only knows what the law will actually say, but private attornies have been running circles around gubmint lawyers for a hundred years.

I believe this bill can only be enforced at the point of a gun.....hmmm lots of guns.

Every time some loved family member is denied care "de-facto".......a few more on sit-down strike.

Derek Leaberry| 3.18.10 @ 12:05PM

With the government racing towards financial ruin, how can there be a health war when there isn't any money to fund a health war? The Democrats have massively overspent on domestic programs for nearly eighty years. The Republicans, twenty years after the end of the Cold War, massively overspend on the military and elective wars. Both parties have led the country to financial armageddon. Yet the fiscal irresponsibility of the two parties must be inevitably blamed on the people who voted the cretins into office. So Americans are getting exactly what they deserve. I hope they enjoy.

SoCon| 3.18.10 @ 3:41PM

Uh, Derek, aren't YOU one of "those Americans?"
It's wrong to wish ill on your own people. I haven't given up and I won't.

What a grump.

Ken (Old Texican)| 3.18.10 @ 1:58PM

Derek,
Screw you.

Go build a log cabin in the woods, if you are an American.
(Otherwise, just sit back and watch America come through, and bail you serfs out yet again.)

You have read about "tar and feathers, and pitchforks" here. Uh...those are merely euphemisms.
Once again "the sleeping giant" is awake...and filled with a terrible resolve.

We shall retire these communists, (pardon the shorthand), in disgrace...one way or another.

Get some popcorn and coca-cola, and watch from the sidelines.
You know, in 1776, the "majority" was "duh". A minority of committed free men and women won the day.
We shall again.

SoCon| 3.18.10 @ 3:42PM

You crack me up! Funny Texan, I love your spirit.

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Nikki| 3.20.10 @ 4:54PM

Great! Bring it on! I would love to see politics reshaped! We can learn from the experiences of several other capitalist democracies who have had success (and much better overall health statistics) with partially government backed healthcare plans, as outlined here on Frontline's, "Sick Around the World":
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/.....opsis.html