What a Difference Four Years Makes

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) stated on FOX News on July 20 that the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats were not “rushing through” their proposed federalization of health insurance, as some critics have alleged. He explained that the charge of “rushing” was unfair because the federalization of health insurance has been proposed since 1993.

If one accepts Hoyer’s argument that 16 years is not “rushing,” then four years must make all the difference between what is “rushing” and what is not. In 1993, when President George W. Bush launched the Liberation of Iraq after 12 years of numerous violations by Saddam Hussein’s regime of several UN resolutions and the 1991 cease-fire Agreement, as well as continued sponsorship of terrorism, many Congressional Democrats and other liberals accused him of “rushing to war.” In other words, 12 years is “rushing,” but 16 is not, according to Congressional Democratic thinking. Four years must make all the difference in their minds.

Hoyer’s argument that Obama’s federalization of health insurance is not being rushed through because it was first proposed 16 years ago fails to refute the critics who insist that it is. The critics are referring to the current proposal, which was made by President Barak Obama only a few weeks ago, and which he is pushing to be approved almost immediately, not to the topic in general. The Democratic bill is so complicated that a flow chart had to be created in order to understand all of the bureaucracy it will require. See the chart on the webpage of its creator, Rep. Kevin Brady, (R-TX): www.house.gov/brady. A federal takeover of such a large segment of the economy, which would require much more spending, borrowing and taxing than Obama has already approved, is not something to be rushed through in just a few weeks. It is something to oppose. One way to oppose it effectively is to slow it down in order to give people the opportunity to learn what is in the bill and to contemplate its effects.