We Have Only Ourselves to Blame
It’s too early to tell what’s going to happen with this healthcare thing but something is going to happen. There is no way that when all is said and done, the federal government will not have more control over the choices we can make regarding healthcare and there’s no one to blame but ourselves.
Think about how casual we’ve been in sending people to our city halls, county seats and state capitals and compare it to our obsession with national politics. Yet when it comes to national politics, think about how little of it we followed when there wasn’t an election happening.
I’m to blame for not demanding more from the Republicans I voted for. I was content in electing mild mannered and useful idiots because they would only do mild mannered and useful things. I didn’t realize that the useful idiots the Left was sending weren’t so mild mannered and that our idiots would crumble out of fear of the label.
We were busy running our lives and chasing our dreams to notice that the pot we were in was simmering. We’ve known that cross border competition for insurance would improve both cost and quality yet we did nothing about it. We’ve known that consumer driven healthcare is better for the patient and further drives down the cost of care with market forces but what did we do to promote it in our state? What have we done to fight for expanding the HSA program or to allow a portion of our state income tax to be diverted to them?
Despite all of our 10th Amendment angst we didn’t do a damn thing in the states of Minnesota or Wisconsin when we had the chance and the Dems aren’t going to make the same mistake now that they have State and Federal power.
The state amendment that Tom Emmer is proposing is a tactic we must employ but had we governed well we wouldn’t need to remind the feds our our sovereignty.
Cross-posted at Truth Vs. The Machine. Comments welcome.
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