The imminent death of Obamacare leaves some questions to be answered

Apparently the message has gotten through loud and clear to the Obama administration that we, the average people of America, don’t want the Federal Government butting it’s Pinocchio like nose into our health care via a federally subsidized health insurance “option”. In case you missed it, it was first announced yesterday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and then reported as breaking news on all the cable news stations, that the “public option” of H.R. 3200 (commonly called Obamacare) was “not essential to health care reform”. This announcement (and his words that “the public option is just a sliver of the proposed health care reform”) was cheered by those of us who vociferously spoke against H.R. 3200, means that Mr. Obama finally gets it that most American’s want no part of federally subsidized health care. And is saying this, H.R. 3200 is all but dead and maybe Mr. Obama will give up on trying to force his version of health care upon us-for now anyways.

But this backing off of what was obviously bad legislation leads me to ask why?

Why propose this bill at all if the so called public option wasn’t “necessary to the importance of passing health care reform”?

If it wasn’t necessary to passing health care reform then why was it so prominently displayed in H.R. 3200 that it comprised most of the bill’s 1000 plus pages?

And if it was so irrelevant why were the various aspects of this “public option” the ones put forth to Americans as the evidence of what the Obama administration viewed as “reform” of the health care industry?...

We most likely will never get any answers to these questions because A) no matter how much Obama claims he wants “transparency” during his presidency we know better than to expect 100% of it and B) because those journalists who cover the White House and the Obama administration for the large news organizations are too big of pussies to ask the hard questions and really confront our Congressional leaders when they try to pass such blatantly subversive legislation on the American people.

I digress...Obamacare isn’t completely dead yet, but it sure looks to be headed that way quickly. My hope is that many of us learned a lesson out of this which I have known for most of my life: that it is up to us, the public, to keep watch over what our elected officials are doing because if we hadn’t of done so in this case, and then spoke out by the 100’s of thousands against it, just think what could have been?