...it increased demand without doing anything to increase supply.
Only an idiot wouldn't have expected price increases and shortages.
You've got it right, jdege, but I believe this is worth adding: this legislation was designed to increase demand and shrink supply. The object of the scheme is twofold:
1.) Medical care becomes an increasingly scarce commodity.
2.) The feral government takes control of the distribution of this increasingly scarce commodity, which is to say: perverts it into a reward that can be granted or withheld at state preference.
Ultimately, we've let representatives of the Democratic [sic] party grow the feral government by a prodigious quantity and simultaneously turn medical care into a weapon to be used against us patriots.
Ultimately, we've let representatives of the Democratic [sic] party grow the feral government by a prodigious quantity and simultaneously turn medical care into a weapon to be used against us patriots.
I'd worry about it more if mainstream medicine hadn't been so captured by agricultural and pharmaceutical interests that the treatment and advice it offers for chronic disease is actually worse than useless.
Don't get me wrong - if I break a leg I want a modern hospital. But for obesity, hypertension, diabetes, metabolic syndrome? Any and all of the chronic "diseases of civilization" that plague us - you'd be better off ignoring the doctors entirely.