[MarkL]

So there was no need at all for anything like ObamaCare.

You seem to be missing the whole reason for ObamaCare. It has nothing to do with healthcare, nor with insurance. It is all about control. Control over your decisions. Control over nearly every aspect of your life. And control over who lives, and who dies.

Much like the reason for Marine boot camp, where the DIs mentally and emotionally "break down" the Marine recruits, only to mold them into a cohesive fighting force, the reason for this nightmarish "roll-out" is to break down the public's expectations of what health care should be, and in many cases, what the public has come to depend on, in order to replace it with a nationalized health care system, much like that in Great Britain. IIRC, one of the "architects" of ObamaCare has been repeatedly quoted as admiring the NHS, and hoping to turn the US health care system, formerly one of the best in the world, into a clone of the NHS.

Mark

[xzins]

So there was no need at all for anything like ObamaCare. You seem to be missing the whole reason for ObamaCare

I didn't write this article. I simply posted it.

[Cvengr]

...hoping to turn the US health care system, formerly one of the best in the world, into a clone of the NHS.

Brings up another issue on Obamacare lost jobs.

There are a lot of Canadians who have invested in winter time shares and 2nd homes in the US, in major part for access to healthcare here in the US. They hate having to wait 6 months to get permission to have a doctor's visit or an outpatient procedure performed.

Local economies depending upon foreign tourism need to be prepared to take a substantial loss in tourist trade when Obamacare goes into effect.