Resistance to Obama Care Just "Politics"

The latest Obamacast to America, a political TV ad features a couple discussing public health care. They present, in order, the stock arguments from the liberal side of the debate in Congress (team Obama). The script of the commercial is even worded like a series of Obama sound bytes. But the center of the "debate" is not an argument or a fact - it's a blanket characterization that is not helping to move the debate forward. It scares me to think that this is just the discussion happening in Congress. Debate regarding the merits and moral hazards of public health care is the next step.

This makes the House's failure to meet the August deadline somewhat of a victory. The delay means we just have to live with the system a while longer; inevitably the debate will happen, and by then conservative voters will be able to mount a better defense. The right needs a market solution - scary to think about what the current Republican party might create for corporate health care industry. However, by then Republican voters will have had an opportunity to thin their ranks of such pseudoconservatives.

How can this be considered "just politics?" Did anyone really expect the most radical progressive reorganization of American institutions to succeed instantly with no opposition? Sometimes a compromise will satisfy both sides, but there is very little chance here. Obama has tried very hard to attract conservatives by using markets and economic incentives - de-socializing his plan. I think conservative resistance to this plan is legitimate. Claiming that "it's just politics" is a complete cop out argument that marginalizes perfectly legitimate concerns.

Just like most legislation these days, you cannot focus on projections of its effects. The pro-con talking points become irrelevant when the true problem with most legislation is the unintended consequences, including special provisions hidden within thousands of pages of fine print that are known only to the lobbyist who wrote them.