I never said there wasn't any benefit. There are always benefits and disadvantages to going the Marxist control route, same as every other governmental choice we make. Setting this precedent would have wide reaching implications down the road, not to mention the immediately adverse quality of life disadvantages to many, or the opportunity to politicize health decisions like has happened in Europe. Good luck being a senior citizen who would have been able to get that hip replacement under the current system but it's not authorized under the new politically manufactured coverage tables. "Someone will have to pay for it" suddenly becomes "no one will pay for it". The next year money gets tighter and so do those coverage tables. Let's Go Greece!
We could have learned our lessons from pushing the everyone deserves to own a home initiative to the point where no one could afford a home, things collapsed, and otherwise capable adults were no longer able to work and afford to purchase their own health insurance. Now we're looking the debt tipping point in the face while adding another $2 trillion mandate and praying everything rebounds at an acceptable rate with no external shocks to the system that are entirely unknown and out of our hands if they were. Not to mention how much it's pissing everyone off that we're still floating the banks China style. Another wealth transfer away from the common to the controlling class.
I hope everything works out, and it probably will, but we're setting up the next crisis right now. Then the government will have this new little tool known as a SCOTUS decision setting precedent to force us to purchase something, and that will allow a plethora of new "solutions" to this next crisis.
Now where's One Brow to call me a fear mongerer?
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