The march toward a government-run single-payer National Health Care System Continues…and some Republicans want to help!  As we speak, proposals for the oft-delayed Federal Budget are being mulled over that will shrink or do away with the tax breaks that help make employer health insurance the leading source of coverage in the nation and an integral part of a middle class household budget.

According to a bunch of pin-headed economists, who seem to live in an alternate reality, these proposals will not only raise revenue for our oversized Federal Government, but will

…finally turn Americans into frugal health care consumers by having them face the full costs of their medical decisions.

Yeah, like many of us are having to choose to pay bills and buy food for our families rather than carry Health Insurance.

Welcome to our new Nanny State as engineered by the smartest people in the world. Excuse me, sir. Can I have some more? (Oliver!)

Such a re-engineering was rejected by Democrats only a few months ago, at the height of the health care overhaul debate. But Washington has changed, with Republicans returning to power and widespread fears that the burden of government debt may drag down the economy.

According to former Senate Majority Leader Tom “Puff” Daschle, a leading Democratic adviser on health care:

There is no short-term prospect of enactment. However, in a tax reform (and) deficit reducing context in the long term, the prospects are much better.

He opposes repealing the tax break by itself, but claims that he would be “willing to look” at it with other changes that improve access to quality health care while reducing costs.  Yeah, right.

Labor unions thought that they had intimidated the Democrats into pulling this stuff off the table. Now, it looks like they’ll have to send “the boys” to the Congressional offices again.

Tampering with health care tax breaks is “a terrible step in the wrong direction,” said Mary Kay Henry, the new president of the Service Employees International Union, (Obama’s friends) which represents many hospital workers.

Employer-provided health insurance is part of a worker’s compensation. Unlike wages, it isn’t subject to income and payroll taxes.

If our elected representatives are stupid enough to repeal the tax break, that action would raise several hundred billion dollars a year, depending on the way that they do it. Many of those pin-headed economists stupidly believe that employers would boost pay if they didn’t provide health care. Those who favor doing away with the tax breaks are calling for some sort of tax credit to offset their theft of our money.

There is some light at the end of tunnel. After the 112th Congress is seated in January, they will begin, in the first weeks, to discuss a repeal of Obamacare. Repeal will probably pass in the House, but is considered to have no chance of passing in the Senate, which is still controlled by Democrats.

Then, our elected representatives will start prosecuting political wars over specific parts of the bill, including the tax money needed to make it work. That, in turn, could lead to arguments on spending bills, which could lead to aa shutdown of the federal government.

The major argument will be over the unconstitutional requirement in Obamacare that almost all Americans carry health insurance. In a McClatchy-Marist poll released this week, only 29 percent of those surveyed wanted to keep the individual mandate, while 65 percent called the requirement unconstitutional.  Other polls trend higher toward the mandate being unconstitutional, as does the actual, real-world opinion of the American people.

This argument is liable to end up in the Supreme Court, as several states are trying to opt-out of Obamacare, not interested in co-operating with the benevolent Regime that is presently trying to rule our daily lives.

The results of November 2nd, 2010, sent a very plain message to this administration by the country that they are supposed to be serving, not ruling.  Evidently, somebody is not listening,  President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) thinks that Obamacare is

…a lasting legacy that I am extraordinarily proud of.

This is that same pin-headed, I’m smarter than you are attitude displayed by the economists earlier in this article who think that we need to be taught a lesson as to the real costs of Health Insurance. 

It appears me and an overwhelming majority of the American people that those who need to be a taught a lesson are the tone-deaf, imperious professional politicians and academicians who are making Americans’ lives miserable and running our beloved nation straight into the ground.   If  Obama and his minions did not learn their lesson after the results of the Midterm Election, then, evidently, they need to be taught another one in 2012. 

It is going to be a long, contentious two years.