At last the Republican Party USA is moving forward in its process of nominating an official candidate to run for it in the November 2012 elections for President of the USA. refWrite turned away from support of the Presidency of Democrat Barack Obama, after the fiasco of the healthcare legislation he signed into law. We had gambled, it turns out, in supporting the basic idea of supplying basic healthcare to the 30,000,000 people not insured thru private health programs, either of individuals or of corporations on behalf of their employees. To support the basic idea, however, proved to be an ambiguous proposition, becawz the simplicity of the idea coud be distorted in the legislation and in the following legislative program of the Democrats.
The President's great error was in not campaigning among his Democrat majorities in the House and the Senate both, at the time, to assure that the basic idea of national healthcare was realized in a simple way to provide fair coverage, in the extensive terms proposed. I woud add that refWrite further actively supported the idea that non-profit faith-based communal organizations should be written into the proposed law that so that the conveyors of insurance were both traditional for-profit healthcare insurance companies and non-profits, especially where faith-based communal organizations were already successfully offering coverage under the older laissez-faire system -- which left 30 million people uncovered. Of course, if injured or sick people got to an Emergency Room at a hospital, the hospitals were often obliged to provide health care on demand (subject, I guess, to state laws, along with federal). But that put hospitals receiving government financing into financial difficulties year after year. Always begging for more.
Therein dwells a story of its own. It was most recently revealed, according to the news sources giving advance notice of a new book, The Obamas (by Jodi White, the book is available Tuesday) which relates how the setting of priorities in the Obama administration was skewered by the interference of the President's closest advisor with her own agenda.
Enter First Lady, Michelle Obama. She had been a hospital administrator (earning a handsome salary, I mite add). She insisted in private to her husband that the absolute #1 priority of the Obama administration must be universal national healthcare. More than that, she had run a quiet recruitment and lobbying campaign among administration and congressional members to thwart the influence of the political advisors who didn't want all the administrations "eggs in one basket" -- over-elaborate, over-complicated, over-budgeted, and over-bureacratized healthcare. Due to the President's uxoriousness, she and her phalanx won the day. So, the President allowed the billionaires Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (San Fransisco, California), to play the game her way in using the House Democrats' majority at the time, to "deliver the goods." In the Senate, the same role was played by Democratic majority leader, Harry Reid of Las Vegas, Nevada. Speaker Pelosi, in order to bring all Democrats alongside, used the strategy of allowing her Congressional Democrats to add, according to the vision of each, all sorts of entitlements, exceptions thru presidential waivers, agencies that created a huge doubly expensive healthcare bureaucracy, etc., etc. The monster that resulted was to be phased in over time, so that many of the deficits of the whole law woud not appear in the paycheques and wallets of everybody forced to buy this health insurance (on the basis of a dubious interpretation of the Constitution's commerce clause), the so-called "individual mandate."
We were sold a bill of goods that woud, in the end, cost us "an arm and a leg" -- again, becawz Obama woud not and coud not prioritize a more reasonable and bearable version of the healthcare law and its expenses -- under the First Lady, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid -- to a single instance. Had he been able to bring in a cleaner law for the 30 million uninsured and had he been able to prioritize its nonetheless astronomical expenses, he woud have achieved historical standing on healthcare. But he established no such prioritization, and continued after the passage of the Monster version of the legislation, to call for and support further egregiously expensive and over-wrawt laws on other aspects of life and governance.
refWrite has decided to withdraw support from the President it had previously support before the decisive turn in the misbegotten healthcare fiasco, a compendious bookshelf of legislation which is scheduled to being litigated before the Supreme Court's in its upcoming term, under a suit brawt by a majority of the states (26) of the USA.
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