Obama Interview with Bill O'Reilly

President Obama's interview with Bill O'Reilly was, in one word, unsurprising.  Obama still denies being the kind of leftist that promotes wealth redistribution.  That's like a known rapist denying he has a perverted desire to have sex with women.  We know the facts, have watched his actions, and have made the correct conclusion.  The infamous dialogue with Joe the Plumber proved this.  The policies he promotes are income redistributive, plain and simple.  What I really enjoyed about the interview was Obama kind-of dodging of Bill's pushing on the Health Care bill being ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Florida.  Obama claims that he and the American people want to move on and not fight the battle of Health Care over again.

Translation: "I am the first president to preside over passage of near-universal health care for the wealthiest country in the world.  Please don't take it away from me with a silly thing like it not being authorized in that old, wrinkly piece of paper known as the Constitution." 

Yes, the question of the Constitutionality of Obamacare will go to the Supreme Court, but I have already written about why it won't be overturned:

In other news, Ezra Klein's column today lays out precisely why Obamacare won't be overturned by the Supreme Court:

To make this more concrete, when an uninsured person breaks a leg and needs hospital care, that care is paid for by the rest of us. It'd be a bit odd for your economic inactivity to cost me money. But your decision to remain without insurance does cost me money, because you're an active consumer of health-care risk and an active participant on a health-care market that affords you certain benefits. When you don't purchase insurance, you've not decided against participating in the American health-care system.

 The correct solution would be to get rid of the law that mandates that everyone gets treated when they arrive in the emergency room.  Without it, Obamacare doesn't stand a chance.  Call me heartless but if you let someone get something for free (and by free I mean someone else pays for it) then why would they pay for it if they can get away with it?  Instead of heavily regulating the health care industry, which drives up costs by creating cartels through licensing, get the government out and let the market take care of it.

Obama's endorsement of the responsibility of people to purchase health care insurance is worthless when a law is in place that guarantees them free care when they go to the emergency room.  It's called the "tragedy of the commons" and no amount of "feel good" legislation can abolish the Law of Scarcity and Unintended Consequences.