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If Obamacare is implemented in its current form look for chaos in getting both health insurance and medical care. Insurance companies will have to offer health plans meeting the government's specifications ...my bet that will mean all policies will have free or mostly free abortions, benefits for assisted suicide, must include sex change surgeries and other liberal lunacy. With all preexisting conditions waived thousands of high risk people will get insurance who will immediately begin getting high cost benefits. The cost of private health insurance will skyrocket forcing many companies the drop insurance as it will be cheaper to pay the fine (i.e. tax) than provide health insurance. Small population states with few health insurers will see companies flee their market further pushing up costs. Without employer sponsored health insurance vast numbers of people will be forced to the state health care exchanges none of which have yet been created or in some states even had a preliminary start. The regulations on how these exchanges are to work is yet to be written or any money appropriated to fund their operation so there will be utter chaos in getting coverage. The SCOTUS ruling allows states to keep their current Medicaid eligibility so millions who cannot afford coverage under the health care exchanges will have no health insurance coverage.

If even half of the physicians who have said they will quit practice due to Obamacare make good on their promise there will almost immediately be long waits to see a physician and many clinics will rely more on physician assistants or nurse practitioners. Going to a clinic will more than likely mean a 10 minute visit with a physician assistant or nurse practitioner and a wait of weeks or more to see an actual physician. Hospital ERs will be flooded with people who do not want to wait to see a doctor. Medicare will become almost worthless as many hospitals and doctors will refuse to take or limit the number of new Medicare patients because of low reimbursement. Patients will become aware of new government treatment "guidelines" almost immediately. Medications that are not generic will be very hard to get and many patients will have to settle for less effective older drugs with more side effects solely because they are cheaper. Older adults will be routinely be denied common treatments. Forget about knee or hip replacements or cardiac pacemakers if you are over 75. Cancer in older patients will either not be treated or only minimally treated. NICU facilities will be forced to have death panels to decide which high risk infants will be given treatment. Abortions will be free or mostly free and hospitals be forced to provide them. Many Catholic hospitals will be shut down or sold to private holders adding to the long waits for hospital beds. Healthcare will quickly resemble that in places like the UK.