PrintApril 13, 2010
ObamaCare's Key to the Kingdom
The enacting legislation of ObamaCare creates a Disney World for micro-managers and other assorted scolds. But in Title V of the bill, we find the key to the Magic Kingdom, or at least the kingdom's treasury. Under the heading of "Health Care Workforce," this section lays out the infrastructure for a single-payer system, while plowing fertile ground for a perpetual left-wing voting majority.Across the country, public employee unions (think teacher, fire, and police) have wrangled overly generous contracts for their members, and in some cases, even bankrupted the municipalities they serve. Sadly, it appears that the new paradigm of the American dream involves gaining hire with some agency of government, with mandatory membership in a government employees union. The union supports a sufficiently invertebrate politician for election and in return receives ever more generous benefits. It is this cycle that is stretched to mammoth proportions by the provisions of Title V.It is...(Read Full Article)
