Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Healthcare Reform? "We are reforming a reform by repealing a reform." WHAT?!?!?

I will be honest, as a fiscal conservative I am not a fan of so called "obamacare". I think it is spending alot of money we don't have while simultaneously forcing people into care they don't want. So one would think I would be ecstatic about the republican plan to repeal healthcare reform! Right? WRONG!  I admire the principle of ridding the United States of Obamacare but I have a two issues with the Rebublicans' tactic:

1: I think that the 2010 election showed quite clearly that Americans are not happy with the direction of the country.  One of the things many people are not pleased with is healthcare "reform".  Thus the republicans claim that they have a clear mandate to repeal healthcare reform.  But is this really the case? I think Republicans should not mistake hatred for support. Just because people hate the democrats' healthcare plan doesn't mean they automatically support the republicans' views on the topic. Republicans need to be very careful moving forward that they indeed come up with a plan Americans want. Which brings us to issue two: do republicans even have a plan?

2: "WE SHALL REFORM HEALTHCARE BY REPEALING THE REFORM OF HEALTHCARE!" Does this make sense to you?  Healthcare reform was started because it was widely considered that the current system was broken.  So perhaps we don't like Obamacare as a plan to fix the current system, but we cannot allow the current system to continue on either.  So far, I have seen alot of republicans decrying the evils of obamacare but not alot of them offer any other alternative.  It is not enough to repeal obama care, you must have an alternate plan to fix the current system.

So should obamacare be repealed? I think that yes it should.  But the solution is two fold.  As republicans repeal obamacare they must replace it with an alternate reform.  In addition to all this, people seem to forget that the republicans are not in control of the senate and it is doubtful that Harry Reid will allow any bill that aims to kill Obamacare to pass through the Senate.  So it is doubtful any real reform will come out of this situation.
~The Extemp Guy

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