With 220 liberal members of the U.S. House of Representatives having prevailed over 215 opponents to pass an atrocious ObamaCare socialized medicine bill that would change our way of living and inflict an additional trillion-dollar-plus burden upon the American people, Senate Republicans are claiming the House bill is “dead on arrival.” We certainly hope so! But there is no assurance. One big danger is that even if the House version cannot pass in the Senate, some “compromise” version may be approved, resulting in enactment of many of the evils of the House bill — to which other evils would be added over the years, if not immediately. In the House, 39 Democrats commendably joined all of the Republicans except one to vote against the House bill. That one Republican was Rep. Anh Cao, a Vietnamese-American who represents a predominantly black district in Louisiana. Tennessee Republicans deserving praise for standing up against the terrible House bill are Chattanooga’s Republican Rep. Zach Wamp, and his fellow Republicans, Rep. John Duncan, Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Rep. Phil Roe, along with Democrats Rep. John Tanner, Rep. Bart Gordon and Rep. Lincoln Davis. Tennessee Democrats unfortunately voting for the terrible bill were Rep. Steve Cohen and Rep. Jim Cooper. From neighboring Georgia, all seven Republicans, including neighboring Rep. Nathan Deal, voted against the bill, and were joined by two Democrats, while three Georgia Democrats voted for it. What, in general, is wrong with the complex 1,990-page House-passed bill? It would put the federal government in control of medical care — affecting one-sixth of our nation’s total economy. It would cost more than a trillion dollars. It would force almost all Americans to buy medical instance — or be taxed for not doing so. It would result in government dictating the terms of medical insurance, with government competing with private medical insurance at enormous taxpayer expense, likely driving some private insurance options out of business through taxpayer-subsidized “government” insurance. It would impose huge personal and tax costs upon many Americans, reducing medical choice and quality. These, of course, are just a few of the generalized objections to the complex bill that most of the representatives who voted for it probably have never read — and whose full ramifications no one yet really can comprehend. ObamaCare represents an unconstitutional medical and economic revolution that threatens all Americans with irreparable casualties from which we could not escape and which we should urgently avoid.