The Ugly Impetus Behind Obamacare

Is Obamacare the bill that never dies? The Undead? How many Americans need to speak out against this bill to be heard. How many Democrats need to be defeated politically for them to get the message. The reality is that the backers of the bill will do anything to see their 2000+page Leviathan of government panels and control enacted. Even without a "public option" the government will end up owning healthcare. How have we held them at bay? Through sheer force of numbers. The bill's backers will try anything, do anything to see it put into law. Fortunately for Americans, not all elected Democrats have the same blind drive. As the political winds shift to the right, as Democrats lose race after race, poll after poll, support for this bill gets weaker and weaker. Last November a liberal, John Cassidy at the New Yorker, wrote a piece explaining why it is so important to get the bill passed, as written, at all costs.

Why are they doing it? Because, according to Mr. Cassidy, ObamaCare serves the twin goals of "making the United States a more equitable country" and furthering the Democrats' "political calculus." In other words, the purpose is to further redistribute income by putting health care further under government control, and in the process making the middle class more dependent on government. As the party of government, Democrats will benefit over the long run.

This explains why Nancy Pelosi is willing to risk the seats of so many Blue Dog Democrats by forcing such an unpopular bill through Congress on a narrow, partisan vote: You have to break a few eggs to make a permanent welfare state. As Mr. Cassidy concludes, "Putting on my amateur historian's cap, I might even claim that some subterfuge is historically necessary to get great reforms enacted."

No wonder many Americans are upset. They know they are being lied to about ObamaCare, and they know they are going to be stuck with the bill.

More at WallStreetJournal.

The part about Obama wanting to make the U.S. a "more equitable country" makes perfect sense to me. Obama was raised by Marxist parents, sought out Marxist teachers, and believes to his bones that only equal outcomes will make America fair. He does not believe in the American Dream of equal opportunity.