By John Goodman Filed under Health Alerts on January 4, 2012
As we enter the New Year, I invite everyone to think back to the process by which we got ObamaCare. Remember the phrase, “If you’re not at the table, you’re going to be the lunch.” As it’s turning out, just about everybody who was at the table is turning out to be lunch after all.
Is anyone surprised at that? Are you surprised at the pre-Christmas announcement that agents and brokers under ObamaCare are going to be toast? What about the discovery that the administration is not a friend of doctors after all? Or that hospitals are fair game any time Congress needs more money? Or that the drug companies are next? What about the insurance execs who have already lost their jobs?
Can you imagine what would have happened if all these groups had stood on principle? What if they had stood with those being exploited instead of trying to line their own pockets with a few extra shekels at everyone else’s expense?
This is probably as good a time as any to reflect on Martin Niemöller’s poem:
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
