We want to take this opportunity to address a question posed to us on a regular basis on this site, since we campaigned aggressively for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and supported her healthcare plan, but we do NOT support the actions Congress and the current White House have taken to impose Healthcare Rationing on America.

Simply, Obamacare is not the plan Hillary Clinton put forward in the 2008 campaign and it is not what she would have advocated and steered through Congress if she became President.

We do not support the Healthcare Rationing bill that is Obamacare for the following three main reasons:

(1) This bill was created in a corrupt, illegal, rushed, and chaotic process instead of the rational, measured, clean track Clinton would have taken to forge legislation the American public, healthcare industry, and economists would have favored.

(2) This bill is unconstitutional in that it illegally forces Americans to purchase a product and illegally empowers the IRS to become an intrusive, draconian American S.S.

(3) This bill will tank the American economy, potentially crash the stock market, and close hundreds of thousands of businesses across the country — quite possibly plunging us into a Great Depression as people realize just how much this is going to explode our deficit, lower our credit rating, and wipe us out financially.

Hillary Clinton would not have done any of this as president.

She spent over 15 years studying the healthcare situation in this country, having learned many lessons from the mistakes she made in shepherding an unpopular healthcare proposal in the 1990s.  Clinton listened to and engaged healthcare professionals, executives, insurance industry representatives, and average Americans to determine what fixes our system really needed.  Her primary focus was on LOWERING COSTS, which everyone agreed needed to be addressed in the current healthcare marketplace.

Truth be told, we thought her plan lacked the key element of healthcare reform no Democrat president would ever advocate, and that is TORT REFORM.  Clinton, being a Democrat, would never make a move against the trial lawyers, because trial lawyers fund the DNC.  Accepting that reality, and the fact tort reform will only come under Republicans, we supported Clinton’s plan because it was structured to pay for itself and not explode our deficit.

Clinton planned to manage the costs by cutting government waste in other areas — and there is an awful lot of waste to cut.

Instead of doing this, Democrats under Obama created a pork-laden Healthcare Rationing bill that is chock full of bribes.  It is less a healthcare bill than the Christmas wish lists of greedy, self-serving Democrats, who cobbled together every lux dream they ever had for personal enrichment and stapled all the pages together into “a healthcare bill”.

There is no way Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson’s bribes would have been in a bill overseen by Hillary Clinton.

Clinton, unlike Obama, would not have abdicated creation of this bill to Congress itself, leaving greedy pigs to their own devices and giving them an unlimited number of pages to fill up with pork to their hearts content.

Call her a control freak, because she kind of is in many ways, which we think is a good thing.  Hillary Clinton is a workhorse not a show pony.  Instead of trapsing off on extravagant trips and vacations, and hosting star-studded cocktail parties every other day, Clinton would have had her nose to the grindstone, as usual, working hard to craft legislation that achieved all of her priorities without bankrupting the country.

Instead, what we have before us is a legislative monstrosity.  Not a single member of Congress knows exactly what’s in this bill or what it will do to our economy.

Reprehensible magic tricks were used to score the economic impact of this beast.  Deliberate lies to the American people have been told about its costs.  The tick they’ve pulled whereby taxes are collected to pay for this scheme immediately, while benefits won’t begin for years is beyond despicable.

We know small business owners who are going to have to lay off employees or close up shop because of what they see in this bill. Many of these people are just skating by on the margins as it is.  The taxes, fees, and penalties in this monstrous bill will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs — at a time when cities like Chicago are suffering with 25% unemployment, if THOSE numbers were accurately reported as well.

On top of all of this is the reality that the Healthcare Rationing bill grants dictatorial powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is elevated to near God-status in this bureaucracy.  No man or woman in government should be given the power to decide who lives and who dies, by determining what procedures should be covered by insurance and who can receive medical care.  That is the most un-American thing we have ever heard of, and it terrifies us to imagine someone as inept, incompetent, and downright ignorant as Kathleen Sebelius assuming those powers as Health and Human Services Secretary.

We love and trust Hillary Clinton, but we wouldn’t give that kind of power to her either.  It’s just too dangerous.  There isn’t, in fact, anyone on this Earth we would give so much authority over the lives and deaths of millions of people.  It is a recipe for catastrophic disaster, considering, as noted, the regularity of incompetence in the H&HS Secretaries this nation has been burdened with.

More terrifying than that is, of course, the prospect of the IRS becoming an American S.S. — with 20,000 or so new agents, banging on doors, bursting into homes demanding your “papers!” to prove you have complied with the unconstitutional requirement to purchase a product from a private company.

It is unconstitutional for federal agents to enforce a requirement for an American to purchase ANYTHING.

What concerns us with this bill is the precedent it sets.

If today the IRS forces you to buy health insurance you don’t want, will the IRS force you to buy a case of Coke tomorrow — should Coke make enough donations to the DNC that its executives in Atlanta buy the right to force Americans to buy another product, namely their battery acid tasting soda pop?  Liz Claiborne is a big Democrat donor too.  Will every man, woman, and child be forced to carry a purse soon?  Will the Left decide everyone would have a much better life if all citizens were required to purchase the new Matt Damon movie on DVD?  When the government starts requiring people to purchase items against their will, we slip down a rabbit hole into a dystopian nightmare that reads like bad Phillip K. Dick.

The IRS has too much authoritative power as it is.

The government has no Constitutional right to require citizens to buy anything.

It’s that simple.

In their zeal to pass something they call “historic Healthcare Reform” — anything — Democrats have paid far too little attention to the impact this madness is going to have on our economy. We’ve seen the projections for what this is going to do to taxes going forward — it’s terrifying.  We’ve also been to Europe many times, to places like Scandinavia, which Liberals believe is a socialist utopia.

We’ll let you in on a little secret.  It’s terrible in Sweden.  Even the Swedes think so.

Liberal policies and Leftist socialist thought have destroyed Sweden, economically and socially.  The ostriches there have no idea why things are so bad and forever worsening.  It’s because the taxes are so high and all the “free” things the government doles out like candy has to be paid by SOMEONE.  Nothing in this life is free.  Costs can be hidden for only so long before they catch up with and overwhelm you.

With this Healthcare Rationing bill, the price will be paid by the elderly, who will lose access to medical care as Medicare is dismantled. The Democrats’ plan flies in the face of even the most basic understanding of supply and demand.  When the Red Queen Nancy Pelosi passes this bill and our current president signs it into law, there suddenly won’t be millions of new doctors and nurses to take care of the flood of people demanding medical care they would not have sought if they had to pay for it themselves.  It’s going to be a pushing and shoving free for all, and the biggest losers will ironically enough be people too infirm and sick to aggressively fight for the services they need.

We imagine Soviet-style bread lines for services, where people lined up all day not knowing what they were actually in line waiting to buy, or if there’d be anything left to purchase once they got to the counter.

We saw this throughout the socialist paradises of Europe on trips overseas in the 80s.  It was not pretty.  It is exactly what’s going to happen here with medical care.  There is nothing in this Rationing bill to prevent it.

This is perhaps the greatest mistake our government has made in the history of this Republic.

It’s going to bring ruination to all of us.

Pure and simple, economic and medical ruin.

It didn’t have to be this way.

It would not have been this way with Hillary Clinton at the helm.

No one, not even Republicans, believed reform WASN’T needed, but this bill is not reform.  It is a hodge-podge of Democrat pet projects and pork spending sprees couched as “healthcare reform”, without any concept of economic reality or a real desire to lower costs and effectively increase medical access to those who need those services most.  This is a spending spree on a Swedish scale, with Scandinavian tax burdens to crushingly follow, leading to Soviet-style lines and brutal rationing of services.

It is an inept, ugly, sloppy bill that sets up dictatorial powers for what’s usually an inept, ugly, and sloppy Department of Health and Human Services while morphing the already abusive IRS into the White House’s personal goon squad.

It’s un-American.

It’s dangerous.

It’s unconstitutional.

THAT’s why we don’t support it.