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Letters to the Editor • Healthcare

Republican Repeal Of Obama Healthcare Law May Prove Their Own Undoing

I am referring to UPDATE 1-US House Republicans move to repeal Obama healthcare at http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Discussion-Page.htm?EdNo=001&Info=081381&View=Hide.

The Republicans’ proposed repeal may boomerang and hit them right on their face, disfiguring their image in the campaign to replace Obama in the 2012 presidential election.

Here is Bakadude’s update: Obama healthcare requires compulsory health insurance to all Americans. The reform was mainly directed to business enterprises or employers who provide no health insurance to their workers for reasons one way or another. Because marginal workers cannot afford the high cost of health insurance for themselves and their families, millions of hand-to-mouth Americans suffer under this predicament. Obama vowed to address this problem by making health insurance coverage compulsory.

Corporations whose sense of social justice and moral responsibility is less than their stronger drive or greed for profit are opposed to this statutory mandate for healthcare reform. Profiteering businesses such as health insurance and drugs manufacturing companies and their upstream and downstream industries that control the market and turn this nation’s free enterprise system into the object of contemptible and mockery, are known to be the country’s notorious Republican lobbyists.

Their strongest argument was that if big corporations are arbitrarily financially burdened by this compulsory requirement, they will be forced to lay-off workers or employees to save money. Thus this healthcare reform is dubbed as the fountainhead of economic catastrophes, i.e., joblessness that could lead to recession or economic depression.

Their second strongest argument is that the Obama healthcare law is unconstitutional. Why force ordinary workers whose marginal earnings could hardly pay their basic necessities, to buy a compulsory health insurance coverage?

The first argument is perfunctory. The moorings of our rich economy show that capitalism run by corporations is a generator of wealth which explains why this country is the wealthiest and mightiest nation on the planet. At the same time, it carries this baggage learned in the study of political science and economics [attacked by Karl Marx in his Das Kapital] that capitalists are proven hoarders of profits. The second argument is not just a slip of tongue or lapsus linguae, but a sleight of tongue addressed to the less sophisticated cerebrum of millions of Americans in a campaign blitz to win political adherence to the Republican cause. Medicare and Obama’s welfare programs insure that the cost of compulsory coverage is taken care of. No American rich or poor is left without any health insurance coverage. Now, whether or not this is good or bad, will determine either Obama’s replacement or the Republicans’ demise in this coming 2012 political showdown.

In rescinding Obama’s healthcare reform law, my concern is, the Republicans might be wading in troubled waters. It would be painful for me to eulogize the next second Republican defeat to Obama … but it would be then easier to bolt the political party of the dead if faith in our political system does not wind down faster than this just recently launched bullet train of China.


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