- Joined
- Mar 17, 2014
- Messages
- 43,726
- Reaction score
- 10,977
- Location
- Earth
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
See, I think that was the plan all along, and the longer it stays in place, the more ultimate damage it will do. What can one say about something so corrosive that in this last mid term Obama effectively gagged the insurance actuaries from releasing their upcoming year rate increases forecast as they normally do in October, so that the voters out there wouldn't catch wind of how hard they are about to be hit.
In any case when and if this turd finally does what it was always intended to do and collapse, the only thing our imbeciles in DC come up with is total government provided healthcare, through expanding the Medicare/Medicaid model. At that point only those willing to work for the government will go into Medicine, and we are screwed.
It was originally written with a clause that would have took us to single payer...which I agree with you was the original plan. I still recall Obama's speech in support of single payer where he stated that we could not get there in one step. That clause was removed in an attempt to get at least support from republicans and moderate democrats. With the disasterous rollout of obamacare and it's continued unpopularity, I don't think single payer stands a snowball's chance in hell of passing. I think the left shot it's wad with obamacare and after last Tuesday night's midterms, the democrat party is not likely to go off the cliff on single payer as they did on obamacare. And they will not likely get the chance anytime soon. The democrats under Obama have a net loss of over 70 seats in the House of reps....and the republicans are likely to hold the gerrymandering advantage for decades. The Senate could flip every now and then, however the democrats are not going to be in a position to run the table in congress for quite some time. Single payer is not going to happen in my lifetime and probably not in yours.