Apparently, the Senate has already post-poned some previously scheduled Medicare cost saving measures. If you’ve been paying attention you might know the new healthcare “reform” package required certain cost saving measures to make is seem palatable in the face of spiraling government deficits.
Many people felt ObamaCare was unworkable as Congress would simply pass supplemental legislation preventing those cost-saving measures from taking effect (and thus raising the cost of the ObamaCare programs). It would seem the actions taken on April 15 bolster this view.
The lesson to learn, all government actions are reversible and cannot be relied upon. There are no laws or entitlements that can’t be taken away or randomly altered. This year-long debate on healthcare has been a magnificent attempt at catching the wind. Why? Because this “landmark” legislation won’t exist in it’s originally passed form in a year, or two years or ten. There is no landmark, this wasn’t permanent or reliable in any way. All the arguing was literally a waste of time. All the lobbying and money spent last year could have been spent directly on people needing it in 2009. Instead it was spent on thousands of pages of meaningless paper.
