Health Care....whether you want it or not.....

A lot has changed in a couple of months...the most notable being the gigantic health care bill passing without a SINGLE Republican supporting it. In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would see the day when a bill so controversial, so all-encompassing, and so expensive would be shoved through congress in this manner. Clearly, a majority of the American public, in poll after poll, did not support this bill. This single polarizing issue will dominate the political campaigns of the House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates this year. Americans are fed up with a constant refusal of their elected officials to represent the wishes of their constituents...and this issue, I predict, will change the look of Congress following the November 2010 elections.

Predictably, the administration and Democrats are now scrambling to draw attention away from their (emphasize their) victory....if you can call it one...imagine a bill so 'necessary', and so 'needed', and so 'easily funded', and soooooo 'popular'....that only by using the 'reconciliation' method of passing it....did a bill which represents 1/6 of the total economy of the United States squeak through. Republicans in the Senate tried without success to hold the Democrats and President Obama true to their word by offering a amendment that would have put into law no new taxes on Americans making less than $250,000 a year...a promise Obama made numerous times during his campaign and town hall meetings. Another amendment would have required members of congress to buy into the same insurance that the American populace will be required by law to have...again...to no avail. On numerous news programs, Democrats who voted in favor of the Health Care Bill when pressed on details about coverage, cost, effects on businesses, etc...were unable to offer them. Pass it now...worry about the details later...seems to be the talking point for most in favor....unbelievable.

The fallout is coming fast...today many large American companies are discovering just how expensive complying with the Health Care mandates will be. AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar, John Deere, among others have expressed concern that it will cost them tens of billions of dollars to comply with the new H/C laws. Democrats in the house, just today, enraged over these companies going public with these figures are now calling for hearings with the executives of these corporations and advising them to bring their books, e-mails, etc to Washington...so they can vet them....can you imagine...more to come....