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| Justice Ginsburg |
"It's a choice between a wrecking operation…or a salvage
job" (see USA Today, "Despite thrust and parry, law not dead yet"). When Democrat-appointed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
evaluates a Democrat president's signature initiative like that, you know the
health care law is hopelessly flawed.
Assuming the Court rejects the partisan ideological overreach as
unconstitutional, it will be time for Congress to come together on mutually
acceptable principles and begin to carefully craft pragmatic, measured reforms
rather than wholesale ideological government takeovers of medicine. Cooler
heads can prevail and pass reasonable reform by providing compassionate,
fiscally sound safety net provisions for the poor and those caught in health
crises; by increasing competition, allowing consumers to buy insurance across
state lines; by rooting out budget-busting corruption and Medicare fraud; and
by reforming malpractice, cutting paperwork and providing conscience
protections to stem the hemorrhage of physicians from medicine.
In a bipartisan, measured approach, no one will get everything
they want. And that will be a good thing.
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