Will it be determined this week whether our country will embark upon a new financial and medical disaster?
The Obama administration is saying it expects to have the House of Representatives vote this week on its monstrous ObamaCare medical bill. But some in the House say President Barack Obama does not “yet” have the majority he needs to win.
Republicans seem to be unified in opposition. Even some wary Democrats are hesitant.
Do the American people want Congress to pass a bill that would add more than a trillion dollars to the current prospect of a $1.5 trillion budget deficit — and more trillions in the years ahead?
As bad as the red-ink prospects are, perhaps even worse would be the bad medical-care consequences for the American people.
Most Americans have some kind of personal or employee-employer medical care insurance. The costs are large. But adding about 30 million uninsured people would not only cost a huge sum in money that the government doesn’t have, but would stress doctors and hospitals, while adding untold costs to medicine prescriptions.
With the federal government holding national debt of about $12.5 trillion already, on which taxpayers must provide a huge amount in taxes just to pay the interest, and with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid costs running in the red, with taxes already too high and our country suffering economic recession, would it make sense to add a new trillion-dollar-plus burden upon the American people?
A terribly bad decision could be made this week. Shouldn’t we tell members of Congress that we do not want them to impose a financial and medical disaster upon us?