Liberals are betting that once enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will be a one-way ratchet, and cannot be repealed. As long as they are in power they are correct, but I think, out of power, which they may be by 2012, their act can be repealed. Here's why....
Unlike the British before the 1948 introduction of the National Health Services (NHS), Americans generally have access to decent health care. Secondly, British society wholeheartedly supported NHS, where as in the US, most Americans do not support Obamacare. Thirdly, we are a less hierarchical society, unaccustomed to rationing; and so when we receive inferior, rationed care, we will complain.
We must repeal Obamacare, but voters will rightly ask, "Replace it with what?"....
Now is the time to debate that and find that. That being the replacement.
A strong contender is Jeffrey Anderson's "Small Bill". Unlike the some 2,700 page monstrocity passed on another day of infamy, March 21, 2010, the small bill offers in one page, simple reforms that address most of the problems with our current health care system: Insuring people with pre-existing conditions with a targeted risk pool, and lowering the cost of insurance through competition, while cutting the number of uninsured by 10 million people, and doing so without a dramatic increase in government control and at only 7% of the cost of Obamacare.
As Anderson says in the article "Small is Beautiful": "If the Small Bill sounds too good to be true, that illustrates how colossally bad Obamacare is." He continues, "Repeal and reform should be a winning message--- but only if Republicans have a serious replacement to put on the table, one that would do something meaningful about rising health-care costs and the plight of the uninsured.
It's worth a look..... go to www.smallbill.org and see what you think. If you have a little extra time, let me know what you think too.
Best Wishes,
Bernie Iven
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