Thursday, March 29, 2012

In The End Nothing Will Change

The oral arguments are over. 
The nine Supreme Court justices will move behind closed doors to privately decide the fate and the future of health care in our country.  Nine citizens, who while well versed in constitutional law have no more than a layman’s understanding of how the complicated health care system actually works; nine citizens who are just as susceptible to ideology and politics as the rest of us.
While no one can predict with any certainty the result of these deliberations; it will come down in all likelihood to one individual, moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy, who will cast the tie breaking vote. 
No matter the court’s decision, when all is said and done we will still be the only industrialized country in the world to reject some sort of government provided health care system.  We will still allow a plethora of middlemen to permeate the distribution system; adding their fees and driving up costs.  We will still exclude millions of citizens.  And we will still pay more per capita for our health care than any other country in the world while our quality of health continues to deteriorate.
The Affordable Health Care Act is a cumbersome and complicated attempt to marry the benefits of universal health care with those of the existing free market system.  It attempts to serve two masters and satisfies none.  
The Court will issue its ruling but nothing will really change.

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