To Repeal or Not to Repeal Obamacare?

The new Affordable Health Care Act promised everyone would be covered, no one would be turned away because of pre-existing medical problems, health care would be transferable from one job to another, and that NO ONE would pay one dime more than they were already paying.

Being a skeptical Republican, I was pretty sure it too good to be true, especially after I saw the actual law--over 2000 pages of it--posted on the internet for all to read. I was even more skeptical when many members of Congress confessed they had not read the law, but planned to vote on it anyway. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, said, "We have to pass the bill to find out what is in it." Deals and arm twisting went on until enough votes to pass the law were secured.

Today the Affordable Care Act the law of the land, and causing havoc even before it is fully implemented.

Employers are turning 40-hour-a-week jobs into 30 hours to avoid paying higher Obamacare premiums. Millions are confused over how the new law will effect them personally. People are turning against each other, because some people's premium costs will skyrocket in order to fund Obamacare for others. In spite of vigorous denials of Sarah Palin's claim that the bill contains a "death panel" clause, a close reading of it does show that a group of people (yet to be named) will, indeed, be deciding when particular cases should no longer receive medical care; a decision that should be left strictly to the patient and his or her doctor.

The Republican House of Representatives has tried from the beginning to stop this monstrous bill by voting time after time to repeal it, only to have the Democratic Senate refuse to go along with them, and has been accused of being against the bill solely because it was proposed by a Democratic President. Not true. Most Republicans I know want what is best for this country. They have been labeled racists, the party of NO, greedy, and just plain ignorant.

Both parties have made the attempt to repeal or defund Obamacare into a game of "chicken," where the side that refused to give in will be responsible for shutting down the government. If deciding to repeal one bad law, or defund it, can shut down the government, something is awfully wrong with the way that government operates.