As predicted, Congress inevitably rammed their "healthcare" bill through the House and Senate.  It's no surprise really, the 2010 election cycle outlook was gloomy for the Democrats at best.  Faced with a lose-lose situation they figured that they might as well go for it.  Republican members gave them plenty of outs but instead of taking up a serious dialogue of reform, the Democrats insisted on turning the whole conversation into a mockery and charade.

Firstly, I have to say that I have been disappointed at conservatives for not articulating the truth of our message properly.  Congress was meant to be a gridlocked, snailspaced process with the end result being the death of unnecessary legislation over time and bills becoming law only when time and desire proves there to be a need. 

In the matter of healthcare, the crisis has been completely and utterly manufactured by the Democrats.  It's good for some, not good for others, all right for most; I'm more upset about the fact that illegal immigrants recieve free defacto healthcare and remain an unrestrained cause of its increasing costs.  The problem isn't with our "healthcare system", the problem is still factors that contribute to costs that have yet to be addressed properly.  Republicans approach of incremental reform is exactly what we need and in fact this bill will only serve to amplify these factors.

So just what is this bill supposed to do?  Generally the Democrats would claim that it will control the costs of healthcare, increase accessability to many more individuals, and in the process decrease the budget deficit.  Sound too good to be true?  You may be on to something here. 

Already several corporations have announced that they are more willing to take a hit in the form of a fine. This would be cheaper and hopefully prevent them from going out of business as opposed to buying into a plan that they and their employee's they provide jobs to can't afford.  Indeed a casualty of this bill will likely be increased job losses as a result of companies adjusting to this new cost.

The federal government of course will be happy to take their money, it's a new source of revenue that will help them offset the costs for the creation of the new healthcare bureaucracy to deal with the mandates and specifics related to this bill.  No gain and likely a loss adding to budget deficit woes.

What's more is that the people that the Obama Administration and Pelosi's Congress claim this bill is going to help will suffer the most.  Because of its mandates and outs for businesses through fines, costs will continue to increase, only now at an exponential rate with still no solution to root causes of inefficiency, just more inefficiency which is of course no solution. 

The scariest aspect to this is that the Administration knows this and sees it as a justified means to an end resulting in government run, universal healthcare.

Obama is counting on no real effects before 2012.  By 2014 however, hang on to your hats.  Anyone without insurance will face a fine unless they can prove that they can't find a policy that costs no more than 8% of their annual income.  Will such a policy exist?  Not if healthcare providers want to stay in business.  In fact we will witness a monopolization of healthcare making it much easier for what we are being set up for.  The claim will be that the flaws are a result of the initial bill being gutted due to conservative influence and that the only choice will be to solidify the government option that Democrats wanted in the first place.  This will pave the way for centralized, socialized medicine which the Democrat congress and Obama Administration just took the first step towards.

There is hope.  13 states have filed suits claiming the bill is fundamentally unconstitutional.  We will have to wait and see what is to come of this.  I would guess that the Supreme Court is less than eager to take on this heated political debate.  Republicans could gain a majority in the Senate if not both houses of Congress and prevent it from wreaking fiscal havok.  Should the economy finally go through its inevitable inflationary period we may be lucky enough to see an end to the Obama Administration in 2012 and truly see the bill repealed.

There is a message here and its simply this, get informed, get involved and participate at all levels.  Get uncomfortable, our comfort zones are our biggest enemy and cause us to retreat at the first hint of danger.  Of course this is a dangerous path, but the dangerous results will be far worse should we cower and hope for the best.  I believe that this Administration and Congress have truly underestimated the resolve of real Americans.  We all need to pray for the enlightenment of those that unknowingly and knowingly support policies that seek to do our nation harm for all of our sakes.  God Bless America!