A Very Unhappy Birthday to You to Me

The exclusive tea party with the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat, in Alice in Wonderland has nothing on the Obama Health Care Bill's birthday party. This bill celebrated it's first birthday yesterday, March 23rd - I think only Dems were at the party.

Health Care comprises 1/6 of our nation's economy. The government takeover has broad economic implications, as well as moral ramifications. There is no doubt that the health care industry had some problems that needed to be addressed; however, what it didn't need was a government takeover. Have you ever known the government to run a system efficiently, cost effectively and in a jurisprudential manner?

Remember last year, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, was winding it's ways through the hallowed halls of Congress? Nancy Pelosi was heard to say, "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it." Most of our august Dems voted Yes on a bill they'd never read, much less considered the will of their constituents. Benedict Arnold appeared at the last moment, and the bill passed.

For the first time in US history, a person not purchasing health care insurance, will be deemed as breaking the law, and be subject to a fine - or could we call it a government tax?

Once passed - and payouts made - to all the wonderful Dems - who totally ignored the will of the people - while getting a payback - we the people find out that the administration granted over a thousand waivers. These waivers protect business, labor unions and other organizations that are the sugar tit, and exempted from some of the provisions that ordinary people must comply with.

Last, but not least, the moral ramifications of this bill are too numerous to elaborate on; other than to say, there is enough evidence to know that taxpayer funding of abortion is there, as well as rationing. Senator Johnson (R WI) sums it up well, "Obamacare will make our health care system's problems much worse. Instead of increasing consumer choice, it narrows it. Instead of encouraging innovation, it stifles creativity. Instead of expanding access to care, it will ration it. And instead of allowing competition to help bring down costs, it increases spending and puts our health care system on a path to ruin.

"Off with their empty heads!"