The Knotty US Congress and the Healthcare Bill
The Congress of the United States used every procedural trick possible to pass the health care legislation that President Obama was anxious to sign promptly into law. The daring legislative process was effectuated by a Congress that had a 14% approval rating and a President with a popularity of 46%, with both looking at a trillion dollar deficit for decades to come. Open deals that would be called “corruption” in any other country were made to secure passage of the legislation. The American public knows about the “Cornhusker” deal and the ”Louisiana Purchase.” Numerous other deals included promises to look the other way on unlimited requests for earmarks
by certain members of Congress, and a meaningless executive order by the President of the United States prohibited the use of public funds for abortion. These are the facts that are not known to the average American citizen:
- The legislation was structured to avoid the TRILLION dollar cost number (the estimated costs came just under the $1 trillion mark). That is why there are ten years of taxes and only six years of benefits.
- The CBO, which is supposedly independent, spent a lot of time with the Speaker’s office in order to tweak the legislation to produce the desired budget surplus over the next decade. This was done, as can be easily demonstrated, by making wild-eyed assumptions that no self-respecting examiner can accept.
- The fact that the only way for the surplus to be generated is through the manipulation of the numbers that will prove later to be politically impossible to implement: cutting Medicare and taxing the Cadillac plans.
- Congress exempted itself from the legislation and gave wide latitudes to the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the implementation of the legislation, and protection from its likely legal consequences. This is the same Congress that exempted itself from the Social Security tax, from sexual harassment laws and from limits on retirement income. A Congressman can retire with the same after serving only ONE TERM in the Congress.
There is little or no argument that health care costs must be controlled. The real issue for the American people to sort out next November is whether the drive for “reform” required tearing down the political fabric of our nation, and further undermined the fiscal soundness of the United States.
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