As they watch Obamacare shudder and smoke through the final countdown to its January liftoff, some of its advocates have discreetly eased away from the launch pad to avoid political injury when the ramshackle contraption finally explodes. Yet the perversity of progressivism is such that, even now, most supporters of the law refuse to admit that the countdown should stop. Their primary justifications for this irresponsible position are that no one has offered an alternative vehicle for reform and that, even with its flaws, Obamacare will effect a marked improvement in the dysfunctional health care system it was passed to reform. Both claims are demonstrably false. First, let’s dispose of the claim that Obamacare’s opponents have offered no alternative reform plan. Ten minutes of research will render it obvious to any objective observer that this is pure fiction. The very people who make this assertion consumed enormous amounts of ink and bandwidth denouncing Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, for providing just such an alternative. And, when Ryan teamed up with Democrat Ron Wyden to add bipartisan Medicare reform to the mix, Democrat hysteria was such that Wyden was eventually bullied into disavowing the partnership.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:34:20 +0000
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