Everybody Has An Opinion On The US Health Bill, Even Me.

For a hard hitting media outlet, The Quarterly has been somewhat lax in the last few days, so I'm here to make it up to you with our coverage of the US health bill.

Now, I'm neither an expert in US politics or health care, so lets just attack this with some common sense.

Firstly, if you're not sure what the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act entails, here is a pretty good overview.

Now as I said, I'm no health care expert, but nothing in that makes me think to my self "Baby Killers."
Quite the reverse actually, given the fact that the bill outlaws insurance companies from not granting cover to children with medical conditions, it would appear that it's more a "Baby Saver" than anything else.

Now besides confusing Barack Obama with Fat Bastard form the Austin Powers movies ("I ate a baby, that's right a baby!") the Republicans also seem to have a problem with the bill because it's a prime example of "big government."

As reasons go to oppose legislation that will allow 32 million people to finally have access to health insurance, complaining that it will bloat the bureaucracy is amazingly heartless.

I fail to see how a political party could retain any shred of credibility with voters after running such a campaign.

 I would have no problem with the GOP opposing the bill if it was some hap hazard policy thrown together, but as the SMH pointed out  yesterday, all bipartisan analysis points towards the bill reducing government spending and the US's whopping deficit, so the GOP aren't really left with a leg to stand on.

It appears the Republican party has taken a leaf from Tony Abbott's book and decided to oppose for the sake of opposing.

As I said before, I'm no expert on US politics, but the anti big government stance taken by the Republicans should give the Democrats enough ammunition to attack the GOP for years to come.

All they need is one attack dog to come out and deliver a few attacking barbs like Paul Keating was fond of doing, to highlight to the millions of people in the US who struggle to afford health care that one of the two major political parties in your country put a misguided ideology over you receiving adequate health care.