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From the Right by Ed Farnan

Supreme Court OK of Obamacare is a huge gift to Mitt Romney and GOP

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 02:55 PM

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Within the the 1st hour after the Supreme Court announced Obamacare legislation would stand, the Romney Presidential campaign coffers were flooded with campaign donations. This one decision has totally fired up the base like nothing else could.

Chief Justice Roberts said, in so many words, if you don't like the law, throw out the politicians who passed the law. That will be a rallying call for the large majority of Americans who do not like the intrusive law that was forced upon them.

If Democrats want an inkling of what's in store for them this November, they just have to look at the smashing defeat they were handed in the 2010 elections, when Americans had their first opportunity to express their feelings of how they felt towards the Obamacare bill.

If Obamacare had been struck down by the court this morning, it could have been a non issue for the next few months as the election season heats up. But now Nancy Pelosis prophetic words of "You will find out what is in the healthcare bill after you pass the bill," are going to haunt Democrats, as Americans find out what's really in the 2,700 pages of Obamacare.

Mitt Romney vowed this morning, that the first thing he would do if elected as President would be to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a far better plan. He said if you want to get rid of Obama care, you have to get rid of President Obama. It will be up to the Romney campaign to expose the hidden details of Obamacare that the American people are not aware of: The hidden taxes, the rationing, limited choices, the huge expense, the harm to the economy and just how lacking a government run healthcare system is.

But if Mitt Romney wins the Presidency this November, he will also need the Republicans to pick up a majority in the Senate and maintain, or increase their majority in the House. Otherwise, it will be an exercise in futility for him to try to repeal Obamacare, with Harry Reid blocking all bills that come the Senates way. Republicans know it and vulnerable Democrats will face their ire this November.

Even before this decision, many Democrats have been distancing themselves from President Obama and some have even declined to attend the Democrat national Convention in North Carolina. This is not a good sign for Democrat party unity.

The fired up Republican base and many others who comprise a large majority of the population opposed to Obamacare, will get to show Nancy Pelosi just what they think of it....Now that they're going to get a chance to see what's really in it.

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seanomelb | Jul 04, 2012, 07:36 PM EDT

Happy July 4th. Mman

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Monsoonman | Jul 04, 2012, 01:32 PM EDT

He invented the game :)...Jes sayin' lad, never hurts to hedge yer bets.

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seanomelb | Jul 03, 2012, 11:11 PM EDT

Does he play golf??

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Monsoonman | Jul 03, 2012, 07:04 PM EDT

Lad I sense U have had a sort of religious conversion, thanking God...finally see the light and coming over to our side? :)

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seanomelb | Jul 03, 2012, 06:58 PM EDT

Thank God for government regulations which the GOP wish to destroy.

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Monsoonman | Jul 03, 2012, 05:58 PM EDT

Who said let the corps run hog wild? The place for government is exactly as a referee and protector of the citizens, not as an investor or nanny. The Govt. did it's job. BTW the govt did a good job busting Barclays Bank for manipulating the LIBOR rate to rip the worlds citizens off...Bravo

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seanomelb | Jul 02, 2012, 08:23 PM EDT

Glaxo Kline have been found guilty of fraud and fined $3 billion dollars, so much for corporate governance.

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Monsoonman | Jul 02, 2012, 05:13 PM EDT

As you can see from my post, if healthcare costs were dealt with 1st, it would dramatically reduce the price of healthcare. But 0bama chose NOT to stir up his herd of pet projects and sacred cows...they're all contentedly feeding in the healthcare trough

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seanomelb | Jul 02, 2012, 12:07 AM EDT

Some come from GOV. funded universities and private enterprise so....85% may have private cover but what % are battling to pay inflated insurance how? many go without basics to pay insurance?

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Monsoonman | Jul 01, 2012, 06:42 PM EDT

Those cutting edge pharmas and technologies are coming from American and multi national companies...Yes the employees may be Irish, but the companies and capital are not really

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eiriamach | Jul 01, 2012, 05:00 PM EDT

Catch up, Monsoonman, Ireland has 18 of the world's top 20 pharmaceutical companies and 15 of the top 25 med-tech companies, is the third largest exporter of medical devices, fourth largest of pharma, and its life science sector employs 52,000 people (as of 2009). Ireland has dozens of medical technology centers with academic or clinical research facilities, all contributing innovations that place Ireland at the forefront of these fields. Partnership with American and other companies has probably kept some of the programs going through economic hard times, but they continue to produce award-winning, exportable medicines, med technology, and innovative procedures. 'Ask About Ireland' web site: "More recently, researchers working in Galway for the US company, Boston Scientific, developed a new approach to tackling blocked arteries: they combined a stent (a metal cylinder used to hold an artery open and maintain blood flow) with a cholesterol-busting drug, and a polymer to control the release of the drug. Their device now generates €1 million in sales every hour for the company. This is part of Ireland's successful medical devices industry, that is part research and part manufacturing.

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Monsoonman | Jun 30, 2012, 09:19 PM EDT

Sorry to tell you lad, but many of those life saving technologies come from the free market profit based systems...How many cutting edge technologies come from the socialized medical world: crickets. How many ambulance chasers do you have in your country like our John Edwards who prey on your medical system and become hundred millionaires...Someone has to pay for those jets and 30K s.f. mansions and we do. The truth is that 85% of Americans are covered w/ ins. We need changes and they would be simple, but many fat pigs are going to squeal.

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seanomelb | Jun 30, 2012, 08:08 PM EDT

Mman to state that people travel to America to pay thousands for treatment when they can obtain it for nothing in their own country is ridiculous.If what you mean to say is that people seek treatment or cures for specific health conditions that may be true,that is also true for other countries regardless of whether they have mandated care or not.I live in oz and every working person pays 1% of their salary or slightly more for H/care. Those who can afford it can supplement their care with private cover.If you are hospitalised in Australia you will not receive a bill for your stay and that includes scans/pathology and x rays.A quick example Mman I take Warfarin it costs me $17 for 50 tablets. Everybody is covered from billionaires to those living on the streets and yet the system is not perfect as there will always be those who rort it.America is a great country Mman but lacks respect in protecting the health of the middle class and the poor and prefers to protects shareholders in private healthcare companies. "Death through profit" is not acceptable.

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BrianO | Jun 30, 2012, 05:44 PM EDT

Eiriamach was that the acorn used by Obama that was exposed to committing voter fraud. Don't you have your own country to ruin?Could some one fill me in on wait times in this medical utopia, any age cut offs for knee or hip replacements? How old do you have to be when the loving government decides you are taking up space.

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eiriamach | Jun 30, 2012, 04:40 PM EDT

Also, Moonsoonman, about the "batteries of unnecessary procedures" you mention-- Much of it comes from the AMA changing the way internal medicine is practiced in the USA. Many of the tests that you consider "unnecessary" are what the AMA considers preventive practice, designed to diagnose problems in early stages, when they are most easily and inexpensively treated. I'd go for once-a-year checkups at Scripps, a top-notch facility in CA, and my internal medicine guy would schedule me for tests I should have according to risk factors tied to my age and my genetic background. Sometimes I could talk him out of the tests; other times I couldn't, and once he was right about an early diagnosis resulting from testing. That's how they practice medicine now. Get used to it! It actually saves money and suffering in the long run.

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