Bumped from August 2013 - in response to the shocked expressions of commentators that Obamacare is financially unsound by design and that a President Hillary will "fix" it by driving us straight into single-payer, that is, fully federalized, health care. Well, duh. What did they think the purpose of Obamacare was if not that? Harry Reid even said so at the time, see below.
Or, as we used to shout in the Army, "BOHICA!"
When the White House was merely a gleam in our gallant leader's eye, he told us clearly that Obamacare (not so named then, of course) was merely an intermediate step toward "single-payer" health care. That means a system where private health insurance does not exist. Everyone's medical bills are paid by the government.
That means that doctors and medical staff are actually government employees. See National Health Service, Great Britain.
And so here we are:
Reid said he thinks the country has to “work our way past” insurance-based health care during a Friday night appearance on Vegas PBS’ program “Nevada Week in Review.”
“What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever,” Reid said.
When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, Reid said: “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”As I said, BOHICA!
Update: "Obamacare is making underinsurance the new normal."
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