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House Health Care Repeal More <b>Reality TV</b> than Theater

By Star Parker Democrats who are calling the House’s decisively passed repeal of Obamacare — the so-called ” Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care” act — theater are hallucinating. Perhaps it was theatrical to include in the name of the repeal act “job killing”, though that is what it is. But I prefer melodrama to dishonesty. Calling Obamacare — government mandates, subsidies, price controls, taxes, and rationed care — “patient protection” and “affordable” is the height of dishonesty. The House repeal vote was important because the House is the legislative body closest to the people, and the people voted unequivocally last November to repudiate socialized medicine. It is the beginning of responsible government to start representing what the American people want and repeal is what Americans voted for. Although repudiation of Obamacare was the most tangible message of the 2010 elections, there were other important messages. Most Americans are sick of the socialist direction in w...