Right now the mainstream media is paying a lot of attention to the effort by Republicans in the House of Representatives to repeal the health care reform law that Barack Obama and the Democrats crammed down the throats of the American people during the last session of Congress. House Republicans are calling their legislation the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act”, and the House of Representatives is expected to pass the legislation on January 12th. However, there are two huge problems. One is that Democrats control the U.S. Senate and they have declared that there is not a chance in the world that a repeal of the health care reform law will get through them. Secondly, even if a repeal of the health care law did somehow magically get to Barack Obama’s desk, he has sworn that he would veto it. So unfortunately, Obamacare is not going to be repealed any time soon.
We are all going to have to just learn to put up with the negative effects of the new health care law. We are all going to be paying much higher taxesbecause of this new law. We are all going to be paying much, much higher health insurance premiums. Job growth is going to be killed because employers will not want to pay for extremely expensive health care plans for new employees. Soon all companies with more than 50 workers will be fined if they do not offer “adequate health coverage” to their employees. So obviously this provides a tremendous incentive to small businesses not to hire more than 50 workers.
In addition, the new health care law gives the U.S. government unprecedented control over the medical industry and over how health care is practiced in this country. The U.S. government will now be telling doctors what medicines to prescribe and what medical procedures are “cost effective”. Doctors across America will now have less freedom to practice medicine than they ever have before.
So can’t we just opt out of this health care nightmare? No, the truth is that the new health care law makes participation in the system mandatory for virtually all Americans. In fact, if you do not buy health insurance you will soon face fines of up to 2.5 percent of your income by 2016.
So you better run out and pad the profits of the greedy health insurance industry by signing up for a big, fat, juicy health insurance policy.
The health care reform law was one of the worst pieces of legislation that the U.S. Congress has ever passed. It is easy to see why the Republicans want to repeal it.
But as long as the Democrats have control of the Senate and as long as Barack Obama is in the White House, that is simply not going to happen.
The Democrats are married to the health care reform law and they are absolutely obsessed with protecting it.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is vowing to block any attempt to repeal Obamacare. According to Reid, the Republicans must “understand that the health care bill is not going to be repealed” and that they “should get a new lease on life and talk about something else.”
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