Why Obama Care Is Here To Stay

While the mainstream media was dissecting the Supreme Court decision, the government labyrinth inside the Beltway was quietly doling out millions of dollars to hire bureaucrats to implement Obama Care and drafting thousands of pages of new health care regulations.

Those Americans who still hold out hope for repeal of the law must come to grips with the new reality.  The high court's ruling makes repeal an unachievable dream.  If that sounds fatalistic, consider that in the long history of the United States not a single entitlement has been eliminated by Congress.

Once the bureaucrats are in place, there is no turning back.  The Health and Human Services (HHS) has hired computer programmers, technicians and managers.  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has bulked up its payroll to enforce the new tax (penalty) on individuals and companies as part of the health care mandate.

There are 13,000 pages of regulations governing how doctors and hospitals are supposed to practice medicine under the new law.  And HHS is spinning out more rules every week.  More than 180 boards and commissions have been been created to oversee the new law's provisions.

Even a new Congress and administration will be hard pressed to undo it all.  Millions of Americans are already receiving benefits.  They would attain victim status if any attempt is made to alter Obama Care.  The mainstream media salivates at the notion that Republicans would tamper with health care benefits.

Imagine television cameras capturing weeping mothers with pre-existing medical conditions.  Newspaper headlines about young people dropped from the parents' insurance.  Radio interviews with uninsured migrant workers struggling with catastrophic illnesses.  It won't be pretty.

The GOP has shown it cannot withstand media pressure.  Republican leaders have blinked too often in the past two years when the media amped up its attacks.  Battles over the budget are a prime example. Every time Obama threatens to shut down the government, Republicans crayfish under the media glare.

GOP leadership lacks the spine to weather a withering media offensive.  Perhaps, a President Romney would make a difference. But history suggests otherwise.  The former Massachusetts governor was known more for comprising than confrontation during his tenure.

That's why the Supreme Court decision stings.  It was the last best hope for those who believe the law will fundamentally change health care for the worse.  

For that reason, apologists who defend Chief Justice John Roberts are dead wrong.  By siding with the liberal minority, the jurist enshrined Obama Care as the law of the land.  Forget all the legal mumbo-jumbo he sprinkled throughout his opinion.  It doesn't matter.  The law stands.

No matter how contorted the decision, it emboldened Obama Care proponents and the federal bureaucracy to move full speed ahead.

Americans are stuck with health care reform that most oppose.

It may not be popular to say so, but it is the sad reality.