Healthcare takeover redux.

By now, unless you were on some cloistered retreat, you know that our House has cowardly rammed through a disastrous healthcare bill in the middle of a weekend night when nobody was looking and have even had discussions about it here. Now I am not going to play with words, because the fact is that Pelosi got the leftists a “W” here, but there is a lot more to it:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic-controlled House has narrowly passed landmark health care reform legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard won victory on his signature domestic priority. Republicans were nearly unanimous in opposing the plan that would expand coverage to tens of millions of Americans who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. The 220-215 vote late Saturday cleared the way for the Senate to begin a long-delayed debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi compared the legislation to the passage of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later. Obama, who went to Capitol Hill earlier on Saturday to lobby wavering Democrats, said in a statement after the vote, “I look forward to signing it into law by the end of the year.”

With the massive majority that the democrats enjoy in the House and their claims this $1.2 trillion (projected number likely to be far, far, higher) government takeover of the healthcare dollars and decision making process is such a popular and good idea, the close vote is striking and significant. I admit I am surprised Pelosi got so many blue dogs that basically committed political suicide by signing on to this disaster in the first place, but I am left wondering how democrats think after the past weeks election result that going ahead with this stuff is good for them politically. That is, unless they are counting on the public’s anger to eventually be of no consequence to their political careers and ambitions?

So many have said that a loss in the House would have resulted in much more damage to democrats in 2010. I want to thank these people for making Pelosi and the donkeys push this thing through. I am betting, and I am not alone there, that their success will actually cost them a lot more than a failure would ever have had. This is going to keep this in the news. Especially as people get more and more details about how horrible, expensive, and detrimental the bill that these 220 tools voted for is. The donkeys simply can not keep the details hidden forever.

In the run-up to a final vote, conservatives from the two political parties joined forces to impose tough new restrictions on abortion coverage in insurance policies to be sold to many individuals and small groups.

The legislation would require most Americans to carry insurance and provide federal subsidies to those who otherwise could not afford it. Large companies would have to offer coverage to their employees. Both consumers and companies would be slapped with penalties if they defied the government’s mandates.

That’s all code for “in the end government will be the sole provider and have complete control of healthcare”. Why no mention of the drastic increase of costs to all of us with plans already? Or the fact that we do not have the medical personnel to make adding another 20 million (conservatively speaking because according to the tools the number is 47 million) thing work? That employers will have such strict regulation that they will simply shed healthcare and make government the sole provider? The death panels and rationing? The fact lawyers and the damage they do get to keep up what they are doing? An even more incredibly that we will all be charged for this thing for the next 6 years, and if we are lucky see some minor changes at some point after that?

Yeah, great and in-depth meaningful coverage indeed. No wonder so many people still think this is going to reduce their personal costs for healthcare and make the system work better. I wonder how they will feel once they see how bad things are going to get? The bureaucrats can not even get a vaccine for the flu our or the Postal system to work properly, and we are going to trust them with life & death decisions? Because the evil profit wanting private companies need to be thought a lesson. Do the people that think like this realize that unlike government that can change the rules at will and not only make itself immune to any repercussions of its actions, but punish others for pointing that out, that these private companies had more accountability and that we have given up a lot in order to frankly get very little if anything? WTF?

The bill drew the votes of 219 Democrats and Rep. Joseph Cao, a first-term Republican who holds an overwhelmingly Democratic seat in New Orleans. Opposed were 176 Republicans and 39 Democrats.

The usual tools in the MSM are calling this a bi-partisan vote because one misguided tool voted for it too. There is however a silver lining in all of this, and that’s the obvious problem that this monstrous rip-off bill faces in the Senate. Wait until the details of how bad the House bill is come out and people find out they have been had. It looks like the democrats remain intent on dragging us all with them off the cliff. Maybe they know something we don’t? Some guy with a Che T-shirt will be handing out some “special” flu shots soon…