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| Retiring Senator Webb and Retiring Congressmen Frank and Miller both have different thoughts now on the Obama Care issue, but why did they not express these views when they were creating the bill and voting on it? |
Retiring Senator Webb and Retiring Congressmen Frank and Miller both have different thoughts now on the Obama Care issue, but why did they not express these views when they were creating the bill and voting on it?
Recently
some democratic members of congress expressed their views on the health care debate in light of the recent possibility
that the ObamaCare may be ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
An excerpt from The Hill article, OVERNIGHT
HEALTH: More retiring Dems pile on Obama for healthcare focus, looks at
certain members of congress from the democratic
party who say that the ObamaCare bill came at a not so opportune time in
our economic crisis.
Rep. Barney
Frank (D-Mass.) isn’t the only retiring House Democrat who thinks the White
House made a big mistake by pursuing healthcare reform. In interviews with The
Hill on Thursday, several more Democrats piled on, saying Obama hurt Democrats’
electoral chances.
“I
think we would all have been better off — President Obama politically,
Democrats in Congress politically, and the nation would have been better off —
if we had dealt first with the financial system and the other related economic
issues and then come back to healthcare,” said Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.), who
is retiring at the end of this Congress.
Miller voted for the healthcare bill — as did Frank and Sen. Jim
Webb (D-Va.), who reopened the inter-party dispute earlier this week.
Rep.
Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.) also criticized his party’s handling of the issue,
saying the bill should have been done “in digestible pieces that the American
public could understand and that we could implement.”
Even some in
the democratic party feel that the President Obama and his then democratically
controlled congress should have tackled the economic issues, debt issues, and
budget issues first before apply more pressure to the budget and cause more
spending by making bills such as ObamaCare and the stimulus package, both of
whom have had little to no effect so far in our economy.
Okay, they're not attacking the basic premise of it, they're attacking how it was done, and they are absolutely right. The economy should have been the first thing Obama tackled, slipping in healthcare reforms in a slow but sure method, creeping up on the republicans while they were too busy trying to attack the economy reforms (and killing their own reputations in the process) to notice. By focusing on it instead, he gave the republicans a MASSIVE target that could be used against him on the basis of "he did this instead of focusing on the economy reform" while being able to avoid the issue that they've been fighting him every step of the way on that as well.
ReplyDeleteAs for him not having any effect? Have you noticed the trends? It's improving, slow but sure, and if not for the efforts of the conservatives, would be increasing even better with more reforms. We need more reform, not less. The republicans want to try more of the same Bush crap that got us here. Obama is at least trying something DIFFERENT.
Great post. Not going to say I'm shocked there are most likely lots of Dems who are not exactly in favor of Obamacare but have to give into it to not get banished from the club. I know that many of these retiring Democrats are actually saying that they are/were against when Obama decided to push for healthcare reform not that they are against the actual reform, however, others know that timing isn't the problem, it's Obamacare that is the problem and no matter what year, month, or decade it could be presented it's still not going to work here in America because that's not how our republic works.
ReplyDeleteAlthough political feasibility is a very serious component to consider whenever proposing legislation, especially one as controversial and colossal as ObamaCare, I feel many of these dissenters have missed the point. I wrote an Op-ed on the importance of the Health care debate, calling for serious reform if the ObamaCare bill is shot down. To wait for the financial landscape within the United States to rehabilitate itself before addressing health care would effectively allow millions of American's lose healthcare coverage in the decades. The number of Americans losing healthcare every year has exponentially increased because the current system is on the verge of collapse. Obamacare of some other form of healthcare reform is absolutely tantamount to lively hood of millions of Citizens. For long time, retiring democrats to publicly come out against the President on Obamacare because the timing of the bill was inconvenient politically is an atrocity and highlights exactly what is wrong with Washington Politics.
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