As you yourself might say — get a grip. The camel's nose, and a number of other body parts, have been inside the tent for decades. Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP are just a few of the programs which, collectively have already socialized more than a third of our health care system. The very worst that can happen with Obamacare as they start to pare it back in search of 60 votes in an incremental deterioration in an already unsustainable situation.
If the Dem's ultimately win something (which is far from certain) they won't be able to keep it because they can't pay for it. The game is up; the money is gone. We are going to spend the next 50 years unraveling the welfare state. It doesn't make a lot of difference in the long run whether one more health care entitlement passes before the unraveling or not.
It's a shame so many of us are too worked up over Harry Reid's daily machinations to enjoy the spectacle of Democrats imploding as they desperately try to do the impossible and fail.
“The camel’s nose, and a number of other body parts, have been inside the tent for decades. Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP are just a few of the programs which, collectively have already socialized more than a third of our health care system. The very worst that can happen with Obamacare as they start to pare it back in search of 60 votes in an incremental deterioration in an already unsustainable situation.”
Interesting points.
I would say though that the MANDATES are the tipping point that takes us inevitably to socialized medicine. The insurance with all the regulations is unaffordable and so we end up moving more and more people on the Govt teat.
The endgame is healthcare freedom or healthcare socialism... the history is not written. WE write it.