The aborted Republican, so-called Obamacare repeal
bill, appears dead, and it could have all been avoided if Paul Ryan
(hereinafter nicknamed “Ole Binary Paul”) had really tried to kill the Obamacare
abortion and allowed the American people to have a truly free choice in their
healthcare and not a Republican-designed government bill.
I’m the biggest Trump fan on record, and I don’t blame
our President for this monumental failure, but all of this confusion and embarrassment
could have been avoided if only he had not blindly trusted Ryan and gone for
the first repeal bill to come along, but had really insisted on a
non-government-involved bill that erased Obamacare from the Federal record
forever, and then allowed Americans to choose their healthcare freely and without
encumbrance from Congress. One fears that President Trump may be becoming a bit
too political on us, and instead of trying to twist Republican arms to vote for
Ryan’s bill, he should have twisted Ryan’s arm to get Republicans to design a true
freedom inducing healthcare bill.
The fact that Republicans had formerly produced
numerous Obamacare repeal bills, and passed these bills in the House, while
Obama was president and while it was a certainty that the bill would be vetoed
when it got to Obama’s desk, tells me that Republicans do one thing for public
consumption and another thing when the heavy lifting is called for. And I blame
Paul Ryan (Ole Binary Paul) for this fiasco. What was the difference between
the former repeal bills that passed the House and the current bill that failed
in the House?
In my opinion, the bills that didn’t matter called simply
for the repeal of Obamacare. But the bill that could have been signed by
President Trump and could have gone a long way toward “fixing” healthcare in
America, was a big-government creation by establishment Republicans, and would
only have modified the problems with Obamacare, and would have resulted in new
problems while patching up the old problems.
If one believes in true liberty and freedom of choice,
the Republican bill should have repealed Obamacare in its entirety, period,
with the sole provision that all Americans who had, under duress, bought
Obamacare, would be able to use that plan for up to a year, at which time they
would have had time to buy a plan of their own choice, from a carrier of their
choosing, at a price they could afford, and after that grace period of one year
all Obamacare plans would terminate, totally.
But Ole Binary Paul’s plan had to have big-government
provisions, skyrocketing costs and bureaucratic stipulations (many of which
were likely left over from the hated ACA bill) that prevented House conservatives
from joining the repeal process, and Ryan had to be aware of this problem.
President Trump is still my Knight in shining armor
because the things he promised to make happen once he was elected have happened
as long as they depended only on his personal orders or actions to make them
reality. But I would advise the President that he needs to keep a sharp eye on
Ryan, McConnell and the rest of the Republican establishment figures, and doubt
them every step of the way the next time an ACA repeal is attempted, and watch
them closely as a tax cut bill is proposed. It would appear that our President
has no tried and true partners in the Republican-controlled House and Senate,
who are serious about saving America from the unconstitutional forces of
liberal Democrat, big-government, rule.
