The House is set today to vote on repealing the Health Care law that was passed last year. Now that the majority of the House is Republican, it's first item on the agenda is reversing the financial behemoth that is socialized health care. While the majority of Republicans are set on passing the repeal, it doesn't stop there. There are financially conservative democrats that are looking to pass the repeal as well.
But the bill isn't just being fought on the one front. Now there are 26 states that are looking to have the law overturned in Federal courts, and even more hopefully, the Supreme Court, on the basis of State's rights. The majority of courts haven't been sympathetic to the cause, but there are still many that are.
The war is being fought with the ammunition of numbers. Those in favor of the Health Care law are arguing that repeal will affect almost half of the citizens of the United States, while those in favor of repeal are arguing that the numbers are hyperinflated with only speculative affects, pointing to the fact that many individuals with pre-exisitng conditions were already being accepted by and covered under pre-Health Care law insurance providers.
Personally, the cost of maintaining the law, especially during the economic conditions our country are currently in, are absurd. It should never have been enacted, as nothing should, without having the finances to cover its initial cost and maintanence costs. We should be paying off the debt we do owe and cut the special-interest spending we do have before we think about enacting any other social benefits. But, as history has suggested, socialistic benefits seem great at first but end up leading to failure and high-cost, low-return programs.
What do you think?
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