Well OK, but that is NOT what Obamacare is about, in fact, just the opposite is true. PPACA defines a new list of "broken mirrors" that must be provided at "no out of pocket cost", the exact opposite of your desires. To assert that a huge step in the WRONG direction, is the start of getting to the desired destination is insane. Perhaps those that see PPACA as a step towards universal, single payer or whatever utopian system that they REALLY want are the biggest morons on the face of the planet. We now have SS/Medicare and Medicaid that are fiscal disasters, even though they are "popular", basically because they cost much more that most are willing to pay into them. The current annual cost per patient in Medicare is $7,000 (and rising fast) and PPACA will add many more to that group, most of them still paying nothing or, at most, 2% to 4% of their meager incomes.
The PPACA "reform" keeps all of the same players (medical insurance providers, employers, patients and medical care providers) and adds a few more gov't nannies to "supervise" the whole deal; which does what to make costs go down? Why were the existing gov't medical care programs, Medicare and Medicaid not swallowed up by, or included in PPACA? PPACA just adds another layer, gov't, to what we now have.
