ObamaCare: Expand Or Repeal?

Remember when liberals used to say that ObamaCare wasn't a "takeover" of the health care system? And when we responded that liberals would expand it to a fully socialized medicine program, they responded scornfully.

Now we know the truth. On the same day that PresBo signed ObamaCare into law, liberal forces in the Senate announced plans to introduce a bill to implement a "public option..." which several Democrats (Obama, Pelosi, Barney Frank) have acknowledged is a good way to move slowly into a single-payer system. Otherwise know as government-run health care.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/88371-liberal-caucus-leader-will-introduce-new-public-option-bill

Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), the co-chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said she plans to unveil legislation to add the government-run option to the national healthcare exchange established by legislation President Barack Obama is to sign tomorrow.

"We will introduce a robust public option bill on the very day the president signs the reconciliation bill into law," Woolsey said Monday during an interview on MSNBC.

On the other side of the ledger, Rep Bauchmann has already introduced a bill to repeal ObamaCare.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-23-agenda-ahead_N.htm

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Monday introduced a bill to repeal the just-passed health care legislation. Other Republicans promise to seek repeal of parts of it if they regain control of Congress in November.

So the President hasn't even signed the dumb thing yet, and already the fight is on to expand or kill it. Given the current makeup of Congress and their demonstrated willingness to ignore public opinion and the good of the nation in order to advance their radical liberal agenda, I think expansion is far more likely.

In fact, if the liberals aren't stripped of their overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Congress this fall, I predict we'll have a single-payer system before the current ObamaCare law is fully implemented.

And trust me, that's a bad thing.