Prepare To Be Offended

Not content to ram the stimulus and omnibus bills down your throat, the democrats are now looking to ram a health care bill down everyone’s throat by using a little congressional trickery.

From the AP:

Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Wednesday he’s willing to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a procedural maneuver that would block a GOP filibuster. The prospect of the controversial tactic has already ignited Republicans’ ire, and key Senate Democratic chairmen have said they don’t want to do it.

Reid, D-Nev., took a different position on a conference call with reporters.

“I think it’s something we need to consider,” Reid said.

At issue is a so-called reconciliation bill, which could pass with a simple majority of 51 votes and without Democrats fearing a GOP filibuster. Democrats would struggle to gather 60 votes needed to break a filibuster for something as complex as a plan to meet President Barack Obama’s goal of overhauling the nation’s health care system to cover 48 million uninsured Americans.

Revising health care via reconciliation has been viewed favorably by House Democrats. The House Budget Committee included language providing for the method in its annual budget resolution released Wednesday. Reconciliation is not favored by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and was not part of his committee’s plan.

White House officials reiterated Wednesday that it’s not their preferred method but they don’t want to take it off the table.

So basically they know their bill won’t stand on its own, they don’t care what the cost is going to be and they don’t want to hear alternatives and just want to force it upon the American people. Really starting to like this “Hope and Change”.

Hawaii has dropped its child health program after only seven months. Wow, only seven months? The primary reason? People who were paying for their children’s health care through an employer or other means stopped paying for it because they could now get it for free. Imagine that!?

So now take that same idea, free health care for those that don’t have it, and apply it to our entire country. Under Obama you could keep paying for your own or stop paying it (remember that few employers cover ALL employee benefits and most still make you pay some premium for family) and go for the free program. What would you do? As for myself, I’ve lived with government health care and it absolutely sucks. However it probably wouldn’t matter either way and I might as well drop my employer provided benefits since all the people getting it for free are going to end up at the same doctors and hospitals that I would and therefore negate any benefit that I would get.

The end result is that before too long everybody is on the ‘free’ health plan, for which we are all paying taxes on, and it bankrupts the nation. Swell idea.