I do know bad and deceitful, and the short- and long-term nightmare that is projected from fully implementing Obamacare is bad. As I recall my brief time living in England and being distraught about having a simple vaccine in a London teaching hospital, I can't imagine what turn the U.S. healthcare system takes next if the law's individual mandate is not delayed or defunded by Congress today.
With more students opting out of healthcare professions due to Obamacare and more businesses dropping employees hours to ensure they don't have to pay for healthcare and/or not hiring more employees at all, I am flabbergasted at the rhetoric and stubbornness coming from Washington and Democrat leadership.
So many in the media (and in the GOP including former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman and Salt Lake Tribune Cornflakes source) are criticizing Senators Cruz and Lee for hurting the GOP Party's chances in future elections when they are, in fact, the only souls in the GOP Senate caucus right now standing up for all Americans including the middle class.
Huntsman says we must accept the partisan-forced ACA as a done deal, I think that mindset is a big mistake. It's not parts of the bill that are bad, it's the whole 2,700-page enchilada and its subtle deceptiveness regarding freedom of choice and cost woven throughout.
Some Americans choose to sign up for health insurance and some don't. Some go to doctors to prevent sickness and some don't. Do we really want Big Brother walking us to the doctor's office or deciding what service we can and can't get? Because, that is what's coming if we roll over and allow Harry Reid to usher in Obamacare come hell or high water, which he has threatened to do.
Senator Ted Cruz may have made enemies on both sides of the aisle in D.C. but he made a friend of me and hopefully of millions of other Americans who are able to see through the legislative healthcare travesty that is Obamacare. It's good to know there still are a few political crusaders left willing to put life and career on the line for what is right.
I don't know about you, but six years of being on an economic roller coaster is enough for me. If Obamacare doesn't get defunded, we might as well say "adios" to this country's superior healthcare system and choice.
I, like most GOP and Democrats who agree Obamacare is a train wreck, don't advocate doing nothing, (our healthcare systems needs an overhaul), just not this.
