Bass-ackward

As the various health care reform bills swirl around the Capitol, it seems that the Democrats have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: Whatever legislation they finally enact will not take effect until 2013. This approach seems backward and defies common sense. When a company or a military unit or a head of household faces a serious obstacle, don’t they usually consider all the options, consult whatever experienced experts they can find, make a decision, and only then take action? It appears that the Obamanistas are pulling a solution out of a rearward-facing orifice without considering all the options, enshrining it as the law of the land, but then delaying action to the distant future when their solution may be a poor match for the conditions at that time. Seems pretty stupid to me!

So I guess Obama and his sycophants were just kidding when they said our health care system is in dire straits and must be reformed immediately in order to restore the country’s economic health. Of course, we long ago captured Rahm Emmanuel in a rare moment of honesty telling us what’s really going on when he said, “You should never let a crisis go to waste.”

Watching this farce unravel, one can only conclude that it’s not about necessary and effective reform. Instead, it’s all about politics, specifically, delivering on another of Obama’s cockamamie campaign promises. Who is he delivering to?

• Guilt-ridden liberals who want to play Robin Hood with your tax dollars to buy health insurance for those who don’t have it and often don’t want it. They ignore the myriad of conservative proposals to care for the truly needy without spending trillions of dollars that we don’t have.
• Unions who see another money trough that they can stick their snout into. They hope to find some way to portray themselves as the necessary conduit of government largesse to their members, thereby making unions relevant once again.
• Socialists who applaud any increase of government power over its citizens, under the mistaken assumption that they will always be the master and never the slave, that they will wear the government jackboots that step on your neck.
• Misguided clergy who believe it’s a moral imperative to curtail American liberty and bankrupt the country in order to care for some mythical 47 million uninsured.
• Some large businesses who see an opportunity to use other people’s money to alleviate their employee health care costs, or to make money servicing a huge new government bureaucracy, or to drive smaller competitors out of business with expensive government mandates.
• Some health care providers and health insurers who see money-making opportunities due to the deluge of new taxpayer dollars that will flood the health care industry.

So, why the delay to 2013? I think there are two reasons. First, this date is conveniently after the next presidential election, so the severe negative repercussions of ObamaCare won’t have become visible yet, and Obama can treat health care reform as a problem solved. Second, the delay will enable the beneficiaries listed above to get their ducks in a row to ensure they get a piece of the pie in this vast taxpayer ripoff.