{"id":22575,"date":"2015-03-10T17:33:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22575"},"modified":"2015-03-10T17:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:33:25","slug":"lessons-from-britain-in-repealing-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22575\/lessons-from-britain-in-repealing-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Britain in Repealing ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Hannan, a British conservative serving in the European Parliament, warns Americans about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/kill-obamacare-or-u.s.-healthcare-will-suffer-same-fate-as-britain\/article\/2561140 \" target=\"_blank\">the danger of propping up ObamaCare<\/a> long enough for it to get entrenched in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObamaCare isn\u2019t a precise copy of the British health system. But there is one parallel on which its exponents are relying, namely the conflation of their healthcare model with the people who work in it,\u201d writes Hannan. \u201cThe chairman of the body in charge of overseeing care quality in Britain recently put his finger on the problem: \u2018The NHS became too powerful to criticize. When things were going wrong, people didn\u2019t say anything. If you criticized the NHS \u2013 the attitude was how dare you?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something similar seems to be happening now. Some states are getting ready to install ObamaCare exchanges if the Supreme Court strikes down the IRS subsidies as unlawfully distributed to people using the federal Healthcare.gov website.<\/p>\n<p>Others are suggesting the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/mar\/8\/ben-sasse-driving-republican-obamacare-fix\/ \" target=\"_blank\">an \u201coff-ramp\u201d from ObamaCare<\/a> that would keep the subsidies flowing until the 2016 presidential election, but would also extend the health law\u2019s life span.<\/p>\n<p>These kinds of half-measures do nothing to help move health reform in a more sustainable, market-oriented direction. All they do is put a bipartisan face on ObamaCare, albeit in an altered form.<\/p>\n<p>Part of what makes repealing ObamaCare a realistic option is the steadfast resistance from state and federal Republicans in implementing it. If even a significant minority of GOP leaders start to go along with saving ObamaCare \u2013 in whatever form \u2013 then the United States runs the risk that Hannan in Britain knows all too well.<\/p>\n<p>Socialized medicine will be here to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Hannan, a British conservative serving in the European Parliament, warns Americans about the danger of propping up ObamaCare long enough for it to get entrenched in everyday life. \u201cObamaCare isn\u2019t a precise copy of the British health system. But there is one parallel on which its exponents are relying, namely the conflation of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,3007,3308,1829,35,1912,2249,284],"class_list":["post-22575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-states","tag-subsidy","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22575"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22584,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22575\/revisions\/22584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}