The face of anti-Obamacare

 

Yes, folks.   This is what the face of anti-Obamacare looks like.    Those die-hard souls who are so adamant that the Affordable Care Act is an abomination that facts don't matter, public opinion polls don't matter -- it has become an obsession.

Here we literally have the face of the anti-Obamacare craze:   Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) who, unlike some of his colleagues who claim that Obamacare will fall of its own weight, preaches that it must be killed.

“And some of our friends say, ‘We don’t have to worry about Obamacare, it will fall of its own weight.’ No, it doesn’t. . . .  Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people’s money. . . .  [But] socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don’t go broke.”

I'm not quite sure I can follow his line of thought, but that's his argument for why we can't just sit back and wait for Obamacare to die.    He seems to acknowledge that it isn't going to fail.   Does that mean it will work?

Is his real argument that we have to kill it because it will work?   I think so.

And that is what is happening.   The difference is that some of us think that is a very good thing -- and that some day we'll see the wisdom of going the next step and saving lots of money by evolving to a single pay system that we should have had 100 years ago if Teddy Roosevelt had his way.

Ralph