The Health Care Law; Good or Bad? What’s the Truth?
OK, so now the score is even at two each. I am talking about the ruling of federal judges on the constitutionality of the mandate in the new health care law requiring all Americans to purchase private insurance. To date, four federal judges have ruled on the constitutionality of said mandate. Two have upheld it, and two have ruled against it. The two judges upholding it were appointed by a Democratic president, and the two ruling against the law were appointed by a Republican president.
Do you think that this is merely a coincidence? I certainly do not. Rather, I think what we have here is a political game being played where each side is vying for political points. If you listen to the majority of Democratic lawmakers, the health care law is a good thing. Listen to the majority of their Republican counterparts, and this is bad for our country. So much so that before the new Republicans were sworn into office last month to give their party the majority in the House, their first order of business was to vote to overturn the health care law—even though they knew it was a waste of time; that is, the votes did not exist in the Senate for repealing the law, and under no scenario would President Obama act to repeal his cherished accomplishment.
So is anyone interested in getting to and telling us the truth? Currently, I am convinced that somebody’s lying big time, or truth ain’t truth.
Case in point. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that repealing the law would increase the deficit about $230 million over the next 10 years. Did I mention that the CBO was nonpartisan, or at least supposed to be? Armed with this information prior to their vote to repeal the law, Republicans were not fazed. Rather, they judged the CBO’s estimate as flawed and in turn released their own report citing analyses from the House Budget Committee claiming that implementation of the health care law would add $701 billion to the deficit in the first 10 years. What gives here? The two estimates aren't even close.
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