Dean is right: 'Kill the bill' ~ By Star Parker

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Star Parker Posted: December 19, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 When, earlier this year, the new Obama administration set health-care reform into motion, word was that they carefully studied the tactical failures of Hillarycare, with resolution to avoid the same mistakes. Ironically, but not surprisingly, they have repeated them all. That's not to say that the door has shut on Obamacare. Something still may pass. But the victory will be pyrrhic. The bills stink. Polling uniformly shows the public, for good reason, doesn't want them. And Democrats will pay a political price if they force their irresponsible concoction on the nation. What was supposedly the clever insight of the Obama team was to let Congress take ownership of health-care reform. Rather than piecing it together behind closed doors in the White House, as did Hillary Clinton, let the folks who will have to pass it put their necks on the line. But the elementary point overlooked was that it doesn't matter behind whose closed doors politicians hijack one-sixth of the American economy. I'm not going to do any better designing a space shuttle whether I do it in my kitchen or in my den. It's not my job, and I don't know how to do it. Yet, with a special brand of hubris, seasoned with a perverse sense of what making history means, a handful of Democrat power brokers have spent a good part of this year designing how hundreds of millions of Americans will, one by one, spend a few trillion dollars annually on health care. And they've done this with practically no genuine public debate and discussion. So how could the product not be garbage? Even as I write, as Sen. Reid tries to put together 60 votes for passage of his bill, most senators have no idea what's in it. Times are so strange that I find myself actually agreeing with former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, who has urged that the Senate bill be killed. Dean writes in the Washington Post, "… as it stands, this bill would do more harm than good to the future of America." He correctly identifies one key reason why the legislation is a dismal failure. It does nothing to increase competition in insurance markets. READ FULL STORY >