Another rube wakes up

Daily Kos: I'm about to pay $8665 a year for crappy high deductible insurance in NYS:

What we're really seeing play out is an overhaul of the insurance model codified by the Affordable Care Act.  It will be all but impossible (except for the mega rich), to buy insurance offering what is called first dollar coverage.  This means we will all be required to pay steep premiums and deductibles but may not have the financial resources to actually access healthcare.

As I like to say, you don't have to believe me, but you should trust theJournal of General Internal Medicine which made exactly this point.

“Obamacare is making underinsurance the new normal,” said Woolhandler. “It will reduce the number of uninsured from 50 million to 30 million, but the new coverage is full of holes. Americans deserve the kind of first-dollar, comprehensive coverage that Canadians already have. But that’s only affordable under a single-payer system that cuts out the private insurance middlemen.”

Yes, thanks to the ACA, there are a couple of preventative screenings included in these huge costs, but overall, what we have going on here is a huge shifting of costs onto the backs of the insured.

The Journal quote explains exactly why Obamacare is, and was always intended to be, merely an intermediate step to 100-percent government, run, government owned health care - "single payer," in other words.

The closing of the Kos piece is priceless:

I am reminded on days like today, that President Obama campaigned on the idea that people like me would see something like a $2500 reduction in health insurance costs.

What was I thinking?

Well, thinking didn't enter into it, did it?