Nothing less than the future of America. Jeffrey H. Anderson writes:
. . . It’s about whether Americans are a free people who have the unalienable right to keep the fruits of their own labor and freely decide for themselves whether or not to buy health insurance, even health insurance that someone else might call “substandard.” It’s about whether an administration that can’t roll out a website should be put in charge of American medicine. It’s about whether a president who lies to the American people can be trusted with matters of their health. It’s about whether ever more power and money should be consolidated and concentrated in the nation’s capital, at the expense of everyday Americans’ liberty and prosperity. And it’s about whether Barack Obama’s vision of America will prevail, or whether George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan’s vision of America will prevail.The more one ponders [Obama’s] electoral, policy, and longer political agenda, the more the health care bill stands out as the centerpiece of the whole political enterprise. Stop it . . . and you have a good chance of stopping the transformation he seeks. Fail . . . and you permit what can be called, without exaggeration, gradual regime change at home. For the health care question involves . . . nothing less than the form of government and the habits and character of the American people.
Obamacare will decide Obama’s legacy. Depending upon what happens over the next three and a half years with his signature legislation, he will either be known as the man who entrenched the progressive commitment to big government, or discredited it.
— Jeffrey H. Anderson is executive director of the newly formed 2017 Project, which is working to advance a conservative reform agenda.
In addition, consider this:
More and more Americans are seeing that the Obamacare website rollout
problems are just the tip of the iceberg. The complicated law, like
computer code, has 2,500 pages (381,517 words) and even more
administrative regulations (11,588,500 words) written by unelected
bureaucrats led by political appointees. These facts are undeniable! It
is a massive seizure of 17% of the economy, a coercive redistribution of
wealth, a myriad of lies, arm-twisting and political bribes employed to
rob millions of the healthcare they preferred. Many doctors plan to
retire or otherwise not participate (which will produce a shortage of
doctors and long waiting lines), and as the law takes effect it will
likely lead to economic ruin for many small businesses and working
families. They cannot pay far higher premiums, coercive fines and
penalties, expanded powers for an already politicized IRS, violation of
individual conscience and religious liberties, compulsory taxpayer
funding of abortion, shocking waste and incompetence, violation of
common sense principles of finance and economics (borrowing, spending,
enslavement of future generations), and more. (See Regulations, Senate Democrats, Resign, Insurance Heads call for Fix, Delay, Revenge is Tweet, 16 Million; Obamacare Apologetics, Awakening).