Replies

Now comes the real hard part: avoiding the seduction of the soft-sell. The Democrats have now learned that the hard-sell does not work, and they are now going to try to seduce the too-moderate-by-half republicans, such as Grassley and Snowe, with visions of Snowecare, or Grassleycare, which will, however, contain a trojan-horse, like the so-called "trigger", that will inevitably be triggered and result in the creation of a massive new government-controlled entitlement program, on more or less the same timetable as that for the original Obamacare - 4 or 5 years.

This is precisely the same trojan horse as the so-called "emergency" rent-control laws passed in New York City in 1948 in the wake of WWII and all the returning vets, which stipulated that residential rents would be subject to government control until the vacancy rate for residential apartments exceeded 5% - a threshhold that, of course, has never, ever been reached because the same socialist/communist left-wing liberals who originally enacted NYC's rent control used the power they had arrogated to themselves to distort the New York City housing market to ensure that no property owner in her or his right mind would ever blow the money needed to build enough new apartments so that the vacancy rate would ever exceed that threshhold of 5% - and so, 62 years later, New York City still suffers under the so-called "emergency" provisions of rent control.

Mark my words, unless we are vigilant against the sort of soft-core seduction the Democrats - who have been acting in bad faith ever since at least 2006, when they took control of Congress - we will still end up with government-controlled, 1970s Soviet-style healthcare.