House votes to repeal Obamacare

RE: “The answer is simple: Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate know how unpopular this legislation is and they are unwilling to go on the record in support of this legislation for fear of repercussions in 2012. That is not exactly a vote of confidence if you ask me.”

Bingo.

I still want the Republicans to do what they can to force a vote in the Senate, if for no other reason except to get their votes on record. The only other routes will be the courts (unreliable), defunding, and taking it apart one piece at a time.

The thing is more than 2000 pages long. It will take forever to take it apart piecemeal. And there are too many ways to weasel-word support of this and that sections.

I don’t fully understand conversational bureaucratese, but a friend of mine who is an insurance adjuster printed out of copy of the bill, went through it with a highlighter, and scribbled little comments translating the text in the margins. The thing, as far as I can tell, is so vaguely worded that virtually any passage is wide open to “interpretation” by the agencies who will be in charge of the mess.

This means that your health care coverage is going to be entirely in the hands of a G-5 clerk sitting behind a desk. I’ve already been through that with the VA (I’m a disabled vet, Air Force, Vietnam Era), and got so disgusted that I actually lied and claimed that I was now “OK”, and dumped a 50% disability rating along with the pension I used to get every month to get shut of it all.

I already know how the government handles health care. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. VA clinics are either superior, or completely negligent. There doesn’t seem to be any in-between. Either the employees have bosses who care or they don’t. If their bosses don’t care, it’s a huge problem. Unfortunately, “don’t care” describes most of the bureaucrats in most of the government (at all levels) agencies I’ve ever had to deal with.

I am now 62, and pray that I never have to go on Medicare. But the way things are going, I may not have a choice before long, given that private insurers may soon be out of my reach.

Forgive my impatience… I want this ironed out NOW! I am trying to plan my retirement, but can’t do it with no one knowing what medical is going to look like next year, never mind in three years!

And then there’s the little item that I may not be able to retire…

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Steve I have to wonder just how serious they are about repealing this terrible law. I mean I’m just a simple man, but in my opinion if the republicans were truly serious about bringing an end to ObamaCare then why not target the individual mandate? I think if they would have left the entire bill intact and focused on repealing the individual mandate they would have pulled a number of blue dogs to their side and scary Harry wouldn’t have had a choice but to bring it to a vote. And by not repealing the entire bill this would be seen as a way for the Democrats to save face and would essentially kill ObamaCare, because the individual mandate is the glue that holds it all together. This would have also resolved all the State lawsuits because it’s the individual mandate that the states are arguing against. Call me a doubter here, but I have this feeling in my bones that this really wasn’t a serious effort to kill ObamaCare. It was all political theater designed to appease the tea party groups and other organization and constituents opposed to ObamaCare. They come out swinging already knowing they are going to lose the first round because the fix is in. But in the eyes of the tea party and these other groups they appear to be fighting for them. I don’t know Steve maybe I’m missing something here. My trust meter is just a bit low right now. I guess it’s a step in the right direction, I just don’t think it was a serious effort.

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